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Job 21:7 KJV
Job · chapter 21 · verse 7
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?Job 21:7 · King James Version
Job 21:7 in context
5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
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Key words (Strong's)
- wickedrâshâʻmorally wrongH7563 →
- mightygâbarto be strongH1396 →
- livechâyâhto live, whether literally or figurativelyH2421 →
- oldʻâthaqto remove figuratively, to grow oldH6275 →
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All Job's three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. "It is true," says Job, "remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-16