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Job 21:7-9
New Catholic Bible
Job 21:7-9
New Catholic Bible
Why Do the Wicked Continue To Survive?[a]
7 “Why do the wicked continue to survive,
achieving old age and increasing in power?
8 They behold their children established around them
and their descendants continuing to flourish.
9 Their households are secure, with no cause for fear;
the rod of God does not descend upon them.
Footnotes
- Job 21:7 Job paints a picture of the scandalous success of the wicked: peace, riches, children, pleasures—nothing is lacking to this happiness that accompanies evildoers to their grave (see Jer 12:1-2).
