Job 21:7

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

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  • Job 12:6 : 6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
  • Ps 37:35 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. 10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. 11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
  • Jer 12:1-3 : 1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins. 3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
  • Hab 1:15-16 : 15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. 16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
  • Rev 13:2-7 : 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
  • Rev 17:2-4 : 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
  • Dan 4:17 : 17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
  • Ps 17:10 : 10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

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    17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

  • 15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

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    3LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

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  • 28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

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    30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

    31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

  • 1Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

  • 7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

  • 7The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

  • 12Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

  • 3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

  • 21Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

  • 22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

  • 13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

  • 1Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

  • 7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

  • 13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

  • 21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

  • 35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

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    3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

    4For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

  • 2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

  • 12The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

  • 15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

  • 3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

  • 3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

  • 13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

  • 20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

  • 17Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

  • 11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

  • 3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • 10For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

  • 21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

  • 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

  • 7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

  • 3Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

  • 17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

  • 1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

  • 9That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

  • 7The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

  • 13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

  • 39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

  • 3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • 29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

  • 19God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

  • 13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

  • 6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.