Job Chapter 21 verse 7 Holy Bible
Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
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Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?
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Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
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Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
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Why do the wicked live, become old, and, are mighty in power?
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"Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
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Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Job asks for an explanation of the facts which his own experience has impressed upon him. He has seen that "the wicked live" quite as long as the righteous, that in many cases they attain to a ripe old age, and become among the powerful of the earth. The great "pyramid kings" of Egypt, whose cruel oppressions were remembered down to the time of Herodotus (Herod., 2:124-128), reigned respectively, according to Egyptian tradition, sixty-three and sixty-six years(Manetho ap. Euseb., 'Chronicles Can.,' pars 2.). Rameses II., the cruel oppressor of the Jews, and the Pharaoh from whom Moses fled, had a reign of sixty-seven years ('Hist. of Ancient Egypt,' vol. 2. p. 301).