Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Why do the wicked still live,
Continue on, also become very powerful?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Why do the wicked continue to live,
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?

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Wherefore do the wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

עתק 
`athaq 
Usage: 9

References

Easton

Context Readings

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

6 When I think of it I am dismayed, and trembling seizes my flesh. 7 “Why do the wicked still live,
Continue on, also become very powerful?
8 Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.

Cross References

Job 12:6

The tents of marauders prosper and those who provoke God are secure in what God's hand brings them.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked, violent man spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look at evil. You cannot look at perversity. Why do you look at treacherous persons and not act? Why do you keep quiet when the wicked destroy the man who is more righteous?

Psalm 17:10

They have no feeling. Their mouths have spoken arrogantly.

Psalm 73:3-12

I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the peace and prosperity that wicked people enjoy.

Jeremiah 12:1-3

Jehovah, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Indeed, I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed with impunity?

Daniel 4:17

The decision is by the decree of the watchers. The sentence by the word of the holy ones! It is to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets over it the lowest of men.

Habakkuk 1:15-16

He brings them all up with the hook. He gathers them away in his net. He gladly gathers them and rejoices.

Revelation 13:2-7

The beast I saw looked like a leopard. His feet were like the feet of a bear. His mouth was like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority.

Revelation 17:2-4

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.

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