Job 21:7 Cross References - VIN

⁷ Why do the wicked live? They grow old, and become mighty in power.

⁶ The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

¹⁰ They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:

³ For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. ⁴ For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong. ⁵ They are free from the burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men. ⁶ Therefore pride is their necklace and violence covers them like a garment. ⁷ Their eyes bulge with fat, their minds pass the limits of conceit. ⁸ They scoff and speak with malice; in arrogance, they threaten oppression. ⁹ They set their mouth against heaven; and their tongue passed on over the earth. ¹⁰ Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance. ¹¹ Then they say, "How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?" ¹² Look, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

¹ You are righteous, O LORD, when I contend with you. Yet I would reason the case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those at ease who deal very treacherously? ² You plant them, and they take root. They grow and bear fruit. You are near their lips, but far from their mind. 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 see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing. Why do you look at the treacherous? Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up someone more righteous than him?

¹⁵ He takes up all of them with the hook; he catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. ¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

² The beast I saw looked like a leopard. His feet were like the feet of a bear. His mouth was like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority. ³ One of the heads of the beast appeared to be fatally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world was astonished and followed the beast. ⁴ Men worshipped the dragon, because he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who can make war against him?" ⁵ It was allowed to utter great boasts and blasphemies, and to exert authority for forty-two months. ⁶ He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, to slander his name, and his dwelling place, and those who live 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, languages, and nation.

² With whom the kings of the earth have committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her adultery. ³ And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and of the filthiness of her adulteries: