Job 21:7 - New Revised Standard Version Why do the wicked live on, 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 hands.
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?
They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
I have seen the wicked oppressing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.
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.
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 there are wicked people who are treated according to the conduct of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
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.’
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?