Job 21:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Job 12:19

He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty.

Job 12:6

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

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?

Psalm 17:10

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

Psalm 37:35

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

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.

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.

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.’

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?