Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 21 connects to 10 cross-references. Job challenges his friends to listen carefully before mocking him. He observes the empirical reality that the wicked do prosper: they live long, multiply, and die in peace without experiencing the judgment his friends claim is inevitable. This chapter represents …
Other Translations
Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.
Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
Cross References
And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the …
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness …
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their …
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.