Job 21:7

Job poses the central question of his speech: why do the wicked not only live but grow old and powerful? This directly contradicts his friends' claim that the wicked are swiftly destroyed.

Cross-references · 10

• Ps 73:3–12For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
• Ps 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
• Jer 12:1–3You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Ps 17:10They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
• Hab 1:13You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
• Dan 4:17The sentence 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 rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
• Hab 1:15–16He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
• Rev 17:2–4with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”
• Rev 13:2–7The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

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