Job 21:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?

Job 21:7 Cross References

Job 12:19

He leadeth priests away spoiled, And overthroweth the mighty.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: He covereth the faces of the judges thereof; If it be not he, who then is it?

Psalm 17:10

They are enclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

All this have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be righteous men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

Daniel 4:17

The sentence 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 lowest of men.

Habakkuk 1:13

Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;