Job 21:7

New Century Version

Why do evil people live a long time? They grow old and become more powerful.

Cross References

Job 12:19

He leads priests away naked and destroys the powerful.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are not bothered, and those who make God angry are safe. They have their god in their pocket.

Job 9:24

When the land falls into the hands of evil people, he covers the judges’ faces so they can’t see it. If it is not God who does this, then who is it?

Psalm 17:10

They are selfish and brag about themselves.

Psalm 37:35

I saw a wicked and cruel man who looked strong like a healthy tree in good soil.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my useless life I have seen both of these: I have seen good people die in spite of their goodness and evil people live a long time in spite of their evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

Sometimes something useless happens on earth. Bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. I say that this is also useless.

Daniel 4:17

“ ‘The observers gave this command; the holy ones declared the sentence. This is so all people may know that the Most High God rules over every kingdom on earth. God gives those kingdoms to anyone he wants, and he chooses people to rule them who are not proud.’

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too good to look at evil; you cannot stand to see those who do wrong. So how can you put up with those evil people? How can you be quiet when the wicked swallow up people who are better than they are?