Cross references

Job 21:7

Why do the wicked live on,

growing old and increasing in power?

Job 21:7 BSB

Job 21:7 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 73:3–12 (11 votes) and Job 12:6 (7 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Job 5 to Revelation 17.

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Which verses does Job 21:7 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed. …

  2. Job 12:67 votes

    The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

  3. I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

  4. Righteous 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 taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts. …

  5. They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.

  6. Your 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?

  7. This 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 lowliest of men.’

  8. The 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 these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.

  9. The 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 have been mortally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world marveled and followed the beast. …

  10. The 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 sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. …

Which verses point to Job 21:7?

The 10 strongest of 21.