Job 21:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, are mighty in power? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why do the wicked live, become old, and become mighty in power? American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power? Common English Bible Why do the wicked live, grow old, and even become strong? Catholic Public Domain Version Why then do the impious live, having been lifted up and strengthened with riches? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches? |
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?
They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
I have seen a wicked man overbearing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.
In my vain life I have seen everything; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evil-doing.
There is a vanity which takes place on earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men, and gives it to whom he will, and sets over it the lowliest of men.’
Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on wrong, why dost thou look on faithless men, and art silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?