OLD TESTAMENT

Job 21:7

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“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

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Verse 7. Riches. This is what fills me with great anxiety. Yet it quite destroys the force of your argument, ( Calmet.) since you pretend that the prosperity of the wicked is never of long duration. We see them, however, live to an advanced old age, ( Bible.) continually offending God, and annoying their neighbours. Calmet.—Septuagint “yea, they grow old in riches.”

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