English Standard Version
Job 21:27
27"Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.
Job 21:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- New International Version (NIV)“I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Look, I know your thoughts, And the schemes with which you would wrong me.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Look, I know what you’re thinking. I know the schemes you plot against me.
Context of Job 21:27
25Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity. 26They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them. "Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me. 28For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?' 29Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony
Read all of Job 21Job 21:27 word by word
הֵ֣ן יָ֭דַעְתִּי מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם וּ֝מְזִמּ֗וֹת עָלַ֥י תַּחְמֹֽסוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 21:27
- Job 4:8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
- Job 5:3I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
- Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
- Job 15:20The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
- Job 20:5that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
- Luke 5:22When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, "Why do you question in your hearts?
- Job 32:3He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.
- Job 42:7After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: "My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
- Psalms 59:4for no fault of mine, they run and make ready. Awake, come to meet me, and see!
- Psalms 119:86All your commandments are sure; they persecute me with falsehood; help me!
- 1 Peter 2:19For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.
Commentaries on Job 21:27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27I know your thoughts - Ye still think that, because I am grievously afflicted, I must therefore be a felonious transgressor.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 27Behold, I know your thoughts - That is, “I see that you are not satisfied, and that you are disposed still to maintain your former position. You will be ready to ask, Where “are” the proofs of the prosperity of the wicked? Where “are” the palaces of the mighty? Where “are” the dwelling places of ungodly men!” And the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me - The course of sophistical argument which you pursue, the tendency and design of which is to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 27-34Verses 27-34 Job opposes the opinion of his friends, That the wicked are sure to fall into visible and remarkable ruin, and none but the wicked; upon which principle they condemned Job as wicked. Turn to whom you will, you will find that the punishment of sinners is designed more for the other world than for this, Jude 1:14, 15. The sinner is here supposed to live in a great deal of power. The sinner shall have a splendid funeral: a poor thing for any man…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2727. Their wrongful thoughts against Job are stated by him in Job 21:28. They do not honestly name Job, but insinuate his guilt.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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