Job 21:7

A Conservative Version

Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power?

Cross References

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].

Psalm 37:35

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

Habakkuk 1:13

Thou who are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness, why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously, and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

Psalm 17:10

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

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 rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over i

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If 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 which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked, again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that

Ecclesiastes 7:15

All this I have seen in my days of vanity. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs [his life] in his evil-doing.