Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power?
New American Standard Bible
Continue on, also become very
King James Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Holman Bible
growing old and becoming powerful?
International Standard Version
"Why do the wicked live to reach old age and increase in power and wealth, too?
A Conservative Version
Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power?
American Standard Version
Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
Amplified
“Why do the wicked still live,
Become old, and become mighty in power?
Bible in Basic English
Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?
Darby Translation
Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore shall the unjust live? They grew old, also they were strong in power.
King James 2000
Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Modern King James verseion
Why do the wicked live? They grow old and become mighty in power.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Wherefore do wicked men live in health and prosperity, come to their old age, and increase in riches?
NET Bible
"Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?
New Heart English Bible
"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore do, lawless men, live, advance in years, even wax mighty in power?
Webster
Why do the wicked live, become old, and, are mighty in power?
World English Bible
"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
Youngs Literal Translation
Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.
Themes
Apparent injustice » Sometimes attributed to God
Desires » Who does not desire God
Happiness » Of the wicked » Is derived from » Their power
Happiness of the The Wicked » Is derived from » Their power
Injustice » Sometimes attributed to God
Partiality » Sometimes attributed to God
Topics
Interlinear
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 21:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar
6 And when I think of [it], I am horrified, and shuddering seizes my flesh. 7 "Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power? 8 With them their offspring [are] established {before them}, and their descendants before their eyes.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 12:6
[The] tents of [the] destroyers are at peace, and [there is] security for those who provoke God, [for those] whom God brings into his hand.
Psalm 37:35
I have seen [the] wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree.
Habakkuk 1:13
Your eyes [are] too pure to see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing. Why do you look at the treacherous? [Why] are you silent when the wicked swallows up [someone] more righteous than him?
Psalm 17:10
They have shut off their calloused [heart]; [with] their mouth they speak arrogantly.
Psalm 73:3-12
because I envied the boastful [when] I saw [the] well-being of [the] wicked.
Jeremiah 12:1-3
You [will be] in the right, Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak [my] claims with you. Why does [the] way of [the] wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.
Daniel 4:17
The sentence [is] by [the] decree of [the] watchers, and the decision [by] [the] command of [the] holy [ones], {in order that} the living will know that the Most High [is] sovereign over [the] kingdom of humankind, and {to whomever} he wills he gives it, and he [even] sets [the] humblest of men over it."
Habakkuk 1:15-16
He brings up all of them with a fishhook; he drags them up with a fishnet; he gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore, he rejoices and exults.
Revelation 13:2-7
And the beast that I saw was similar to a leopard, and its feet [were] like a bear's, and its mouth [was] like the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority.
Revelation 17:2-4
with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality."