Job 21:7-16

7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
8 They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not on them.
10 Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
11 They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.
12 They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre; they make merry to the sound of the pipe.
13 They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.[a]
14 Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’
16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.

Cross References 15

  • 1. ver 13; S Job 9:24; Job 12:19; Job 12:6; Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73:3; Ecclesiastes 7:15; Ecclesiastes 8:14; Jeremiah 12:1; Habakkuk 1:13; Malachi 3:15
  • 2. Psalms 17:14; Malachi 3:15
  • 3. S Job 5:24; Psalms 73:5
  • 4. S Job 9:34
  • 5. Exodus 23:26
  • 6. Psalms 78:52; Psalms 107:41
  • 7. Psalms 33:2
  • 8. S Genesis 4:21; S 1 Chronicles 15:16; Psalms 71:22; Psalms 81:2; Psalms 108:2; Isaiah 5:12; Matthew 11:17
  • 9. S ver 7; S Job 8:7; Psalms 10:1-12; Psalms 94:3; Job 36:11
  • 10. Job 24:19; Psalms 49:14; Isaiah 14:15
  • 11. S Job 3:13
  • 12. S Job 4:17; Job 22:17; Isaiah 30:11
  • 13. S Deuteronomy 32:15; S 1 Samuel 15:11; Psalms 95:10; Proverbs 1:29; Jeremiah 2:20,31
  • 14. Exodus 5:2; S Job 5:2; Job 34:9; Job 35:3; Psalms 73:13; Psalms 139:20; Isaiah 48:5; Jeremiah 9:6; Jeremiah 44:17; Malachi 3:14
  • 15. Job 22:18; Psalms 1:1; Psalms 26:5; Psalms 36:1

Footnotes 1

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