KJV King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
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Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
WEB World English Bible
“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
ASV American Standard Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.
Surrounding context — Job 21
4 As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?
5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth.
6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them.
10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
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Psalm 73:3-12For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.Job 12:6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].Jeremiah 12:1-3Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously?Psalm 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.Psalm 17:10They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.Habakkuk 1:13[Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he?Daniel 4:17This matter [is] by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.Revelation 13:2-7And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.Habakkuk 1:15-16They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.Revelation 17:2-4With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
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