Job 21:7 Cross References - ISV

⁷ The Wicked Prospers“Why do the wicked live to reach old age and increase in power and wealth, too?

⁶ The tents of robbers are at rest, and those who provoke God are secure, that is, those who carry their god in their pocket.

¹⁰ They are imprisoned by their own prosperity, they have boasted proudly with their mouth.

³⁵ I once observed a wicked and oppressive person, flourishing like a green tree in native soil.

³ For I was envious of the proud when I observed the prosperity of the wicked. ⁴ For there is no struggle at their deaths, and their bodies are healthy. ⁵ They do not experience problems common to ordinary people; they aren’t afflicted as others are. ⁶ Therefore pride is their necklace and violence covers them like a garment. ⁷ Their eyes bulge from obesity and the imaginations of their mind cross the border into sin. ⁸ In their mockery they speak evil; from their arrogant position they speak oppression. ⁹ They choose to speak against heaven; while they talk about things on earth. ¹⁰ Therefore God’s people return there and drink it all in like water until they’re satiated. ¹¹ Then they say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?” ¹² Just look at these wicked people! They’re perpetually carefree as they increase their wealth.

¹ Jeremiah’s Complaint about Justice You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring a complaint to you. But I want to discuss justice with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper, while all who are treacherous are at ease? ² You plant them and they take root, they grow and bear fruit. “You are near to us,” they say with their mouths, but the truth is that you’re far from their hearts. ³ You know me, LORD. You see me and test my thoughts toward you. Pull the wicked out like sheep for slaughter; set them apart for the day of butchering.

¹⁷ This order is announced by the observers, and the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over human kingdoms and grants them to whomever he desires, and he places the least important of men over them.’

¹³ Your eyes are too pure to gaze upon evil; and you cannot tolerate wickedness. So why do you tolerate the treacherous? And why do you stay silent while the wicked devour those who are more righteous than they are?

¹⁵ The adversary captures them with a hook, gathering them up in a fishing net. He collects them with a dragnet, rejoicing and gloating over his catch. ¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his fishing net, and burns incense in the presence of his dragnet, because by them his assets increase and he gets plenty of food.

² The beast that I saw was like a leopard. Its feet were like bear’s feet, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. The dragon gave it his power, his throne, and complete authority.
³ One of the beast’s heads looked like it had sustained a mortal wound, but its fatal wound was healed. Rapt with amazement, the whole world followed the beast. ⁴ They worshipped the dragon because it had given authority to the beast. They also worshipped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight a war with it?” ⁵ The beast was allowed to speak arrogant and blasphemous things, and it was given authority for 42 months. ⁶ It uttered blasphemies against God, against his name, and against his residence, that is, against those who are living in heaven. ⁷ It was allowed to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. It was also given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.

² The kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and those living on earth became drunk with the wine of her immorality.”
³ Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was controlled by blasphemy. It had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ The woman wore purple and scarlet clothes and was adorned with gold, gems, and pearls. In her hand she was holding a gold cup filled with detestable things and the impurities of her immorality.