Job 21

Job 21:7

Wherefore do the wicked live] Job overthrowes Zophars assertion of the short prosperity of wicked men in this world, and their sudden downfal; and shewes their flourishing estate in themselves, ver. 7. in their children, ver. 8. in their families, ver. 9. in their wealth, ver. 10. in their pleasures, ver. 11, 12. in their life and death, ver. 13. yea though they were notoriously wicked men, ver. 14, 15. yet their counsell, and course is farre from Job, ver. 16. And he shewes that God doth oftentimes break off their prosperity; and plagueth them verse 17,—21. And that God deals both wayes thus diversly with them, out of his unsearchable wisdome, whereunto we cannot reach, verse 22,—26. He concludes with an application of the premises to his own case; relating their false doome of him, and his, upon their false grounds, ver. 27, 28. And refelling the same, by the testimony of passengers themselves, and their better judgement, that many wicked men live and die prosperously, and peaceably, 29—33.