Text -- Job 21:7 (NET)

The Wicked Prosper

21:7 “Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 21:7

¹ sn A. B. Davidson (Job, 154) clarifies that Job’s question is of a universal scope. In the government of God, why do the wicked exist at all? The verb could be translated “continue to live.”

² tn The verb עָתַק (’ataq) means “to move; to proceed; to advance.” Here it is “to advance in years” or “to grow old.” This clause could serve as an independent clause, a separate sentence; but it more likely continues the question of the first colon and is parallel to the verb “live.”