Job 21:7

In 11 translations

BSB

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

KJV

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

WEB

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

ASV

Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

LSV

Why do the wicked live? They have become old, || Indeed, they have been mighty in wealth.

YLT

Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.

DBY

Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?

DRC

Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?

GNV

Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?

JPS

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

LXXE

Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?

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WLC

מַדּ֣וּעַ רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִחְי֑וּ עָ֝תְק֗וּ גַּם־גָּ֥בְרוּ חָֽיִל׃

LXX-Br

Διὰ τί ἀσεβεῖς ζῶσι, πεπαλαίωνται δὲ καὶ ἐν πλούτῳ;

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• Psalms 73:3–12For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed. They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.…
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.
• Jeremiah 12:1–3Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease? You planted them, and they have…
• Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
• Psalms 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
• Habakkuk 1:13Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
• Daniel 4:17This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the…
• Revelation 13:2–7The beast I saw was like a leopard, with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. One of the heads of the beast appeared to be mortally…
• Revelation 17:2–4The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman…
• Habakkuk 1:15–16The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly. Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by…

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