Job 21:7 - English Standard Version 2016 Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, are mighty in power? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why do the wicked live, become old, and become mighty in power? American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power? Common English Bible Why do the wicked live, grow old, and even become strong? Catholic Public Domain Version Why then do the impious live, having been lifted up and strengthened with riches? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches? |
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?
They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.
In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.
There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.’
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?