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Job 21:7

Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Their seed is established in their sight with them,.... Which is to be understood not of seed sown in the earth, and of the permanence and increase of that, but of their children; to have a numerous…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Wherefore do the wicked live? - Job comes now to the main design of his argument in this chapter, to show that it is a fact, that the wicked often have great prosperity; that they are not treated in…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 21:7-16

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 21:7-21

This great mystery of the prosperity of the wicked in God's providence Job now unfolds on both its sides: first, they and all belonging to them prosper, and they die in peace, although in conscious…