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Job 21:7 Cross-References
Explore 10 cross-references for Job 21:7 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 21 verse 7 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?”
Job 21:7 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 21:7
Job challenges conventional wisdom: 'Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?' This question dismantles retribution theology. The verb chayah (חָיָה, live) emphasizes ongoing life. Ataq (עָתַק, become old) means to advance in years, and gabar (גָּבַר, mighty) means to be strong or prevail. Job observes empirical reality: the wicked often prosper, live long, and exercise power. This contradicts his friends' insistence that the wicked always suffer. Job's empirical observation prepares for the book's resolution: divine justice operates on timescales and principles beyo...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 21:7
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“when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.”
“who carry their God in their hands.”
“Yahweh”
“spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.”
“and who cannot look on perversity”
“They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.”
“and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men”
“and his feet were like those of a bear”
“and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.”
“and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.,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.,,,,,,,,”