Job 21:7

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Job 12:19

He leads away priests stripped and overthrows the mighty.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, into whose hand they bring their own god.

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

Psalm 17:10

They close their hard hearts; with their mouths they speak proudly.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a luxuriant tree.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen everything in my vain life: There is the righteous person who dies in his righteousness; and there is the wicked person who prolongs his life in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is another vanity that takes place on earth: there are righteous people who are treated according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people who are treated according to the deeds of the righteous. I observed that this also is vanity.

Daniel 4:17

“ ‘This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, in order that the living may know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He wills and sets up over it the basest of men.’

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil, and You cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours the man who is more righteous than he?