Job 21:7 KJV
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Words Then and Now
- Wherefore why; therefore Still heard today: the whys and wherefores, the reasons Webster’s 1828 · Wherefore
What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.
Matthew Henry
- The prosperity of the wickedJob says, Remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always. Wherefore is it so? This is the day of God's patience; and, in...
Thompson Chains
- Apparent InjusticeSee the chain from Job 12:6 · 4 links
- Prosperity (1)See the chain from Job 12:6 · 4 links
Cross References
- 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.
- Psalms 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 talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? …
- Habakkuk 1:13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
- Psalms 17:10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
- 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 unto 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 fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. …
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Topics
- God Providence of, mysterious and misinterpreted
- Happiness Their power
- Job Complaints of, and replies by his three friends to
- Rich, the General scriptures concerning Rich, the
- Wicked (people) Prosperity of Wicked
Hebrew and Strong’s
- Wherefore do the wicked מַדּוּעַ maddûaʿ Interrogative רְשָׁעִים rĕšāʿîm רָשָׁע Adjective · masculine plural
- live יִחְיוּ yiḥyû חָיָה Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine plural
- become old עָתְקוּ ʿātĕqû עָתַק Verb · qal perfect, third person common plural
- yea, are mighty גַּם gam Affirmation גָּבְרוּ gābĕrû גָּבַר Verb · qal perfect, third person common plural
- in power חָיִל ḥāyil חַיִל Noun · masculine singular
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