Job 21:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Job 21:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 73:3-12
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. …
Job 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Jeremiah 12:1-3
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? …
Psalms 17:10
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. The answer is Ro 2:4; 1Ti 1:16; Psa 73:18; Ec 8:11-13; Lu 2:35-end; Pr 16:4; Ro 9:22. old--in opposition to the friends who asserted that sinners are “cut off” early (Job 8:12, 14).