Job 21:7

Tree of Life Version

Why do the wicked go on living, growing old and increasing in power?

Cross References

Job 12:6

The tents of marauders prosper, and there is security for those who provoke God— for those whom God brings in His hand.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a leafy tree in native soil.

Habakkuk 1:13

With eyes too pure to see evil You cannot look at such trouble! Why do You look at the treacherous? Why do You remain silent when a wicked one swallows up those more righteous than him?

Psalm 17:10

Their callous heart they shut tight. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Daniel 4:17

The tree that you saw grow large and strong, whose top reached to heaven and that was visible to all the earth,

Job 9:24

If the land falls into the hand of the wicked He blindfolds the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

Job 12:19

He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the rulers.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is another enigma that occurs upon the earth: there are righteous people who are requited according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked people who are requited according to the work of the righteous. I said, “This also is meaningless.”

Ecclesiastes 7:15

During my fleeting days I have seen both of these things: sometimes a righteous one perishes in his righteousness and sometimes a wicked one lives long in his wickedness.