Parallel Verses
Webster
Why do the wicked live, become old, and, are 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?
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?
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 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. 7 Why do the wicked live, become old, and, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Psalm 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Habakkuk 1:13
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: why lookest thou on them that deal treacherously, and keepest silence when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
Psalm 17:10
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalm 73:3-12
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Jeremiah 12:1-3
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me speak with thee of thy judgments: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper? why are they all happy that deal very treacherously?
Daniel 4:17
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
Habakkuk 1:15-16
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Revelation 13:2-7
And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Revelation 17:2-4
With whom the kings of the earth have committed lewd deeds, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her lewdness.