Job 21:7

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Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.	Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?	Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore do the wicked^H7563 live^H2421, become old^H6275, yea, are mighty^H1396 in power^H2428?

Original Hebrew

מַדּוּעַ רְשָׁעִים יִחְיוּ עָתְקוּ גַּם־גָּבְרוּ חָיִל׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
מַדּ֣וּעַ	ma.Du.a'	H4069	HTi	why?
רְשָׁעִ֣ים	re.sha.'Im	H7563	HAampa	wicked (people)
יִחְי֑וּ	yich.Yu	H2421	HVqi3mp	do they live
עָ֝תְק֗וּ	'a.te.Ku	H6275	HVqp3cp	they grow old
גַּם	gam-	H1571	HTa	also
גָּ֥בְרוּ	Ga.ve.ru	H1396	HVqp3cp	do they become strong?
חָֽיִל	Cha.yil	H2428	HNcmsa	strength

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H1396 — גָּבַר (gâbar, gaw-bar'): a primitive root; to be strong; by implication, to prevail, act insolently; exceed, confirm, be great, be mighty, prevail, put to more (strength), strengthen, be stronger, be valiant.
H2421 — חָיָה (châyâh, khaw-yaw'): a primitive root (compare חָוָה, חָיָה); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive; keep (leave, make) alive, [idiom] certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, ([idiom] God) save (alive, life, lives), [idiom] surely, be whole.
H2428 — חַיִל (chayil, khah'-yil): from חוּל; probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength; able, activity, ([phrase]) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, ([phrase]) valiant(-ly), valour, virtuous(-ly), war, worthy(-ily).
H6275 — עָתַק (ʻâthaq, aw-thak'): a primitive root; to remove (intransitive or transitive) figuratively, to grow old; specifically, to transcribe; copy out, leave off, become (wax) old, remove.
H7563 — רָשָׁע (râshâʻ, raw-shaw'): from רָשַׁע; morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person; [phrase] condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H1571 — גַּם (gam, gam): by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and; again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
H4069 — מַדּוּעַ (maddûwaʻ, mad-doo'-ah): or מַדֻּעַ; from מָה and the passive participle of יָדַע; what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?; how, wherefore, why.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

mighty — Psalms 37:35, Daniel 4:17, Revelation 13:2-7, Revelation 17:2-4
Wherefore — Job 12:6, Psalms 17:10, Psalms 73:3-12, Jeremiah 12:1-3, Habakkuk 1:15-16

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