Job 21:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Why do the wicked live, become old, and become mighty in power?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

Common English Bible

⁷ Why do the wicked live, grow old, and even become strong?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Why then do the impious live, having been lifted up and strengthened with riches?

Job 21:7 Cross References

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen the wicked oppressing and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to behold evil, and you cannot look on wrongdoing; why do you look on the treacherous and are silent when the wicked swallow those more righteous than they?

Psalm 17:10

They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.

Daniel 4:17

The sentence is rendered by decree of the watchers, the decision is given by order of the holy ones, in order that all who live may know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of mortals; he gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of human beings.’

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the eyes of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?

Job 12:19

He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people who are treated according to the conduct of the wicked and wicked people who are treated according to the conduct of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my vain life I have seen everything; there are righteous people who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked people who prolong their life in their evildoing.