7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
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For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. …
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
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? …
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-16)All Job’s three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. “It is true,” says Job, “remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always; for we have many instances of the great and long prosperity of those that are openly and avowedly wicked; though they are hardened in their wickedness…
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