Job 21:27

Job 21:27 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to 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 enjoyed anything good. 26Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both. “I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me. 28You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?’ 29Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts—

Job 21:27 word by word

הֵ֣ן יָ֭דַעְתִּי מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם וּ֝מְזִמּ֗וֹת עָלַ֥י תַּחְמֹֽסוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Behold, I knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• your thoughtsמַחֲשָׁבָהmachăshâbâh machăshebeth · plotH4284
• and the devicesמְזִמָּהmezimmâh · plotH4209
• ye wrongfully imagineחָמַסchâmas · to injureH2554

Cross-references for Job 21:27

• Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
• Job 5:3I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
• Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
• Job 15:20All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.
• Job 20:5that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
• Luke 5:22Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
• Job 32:3He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
• Job 42:7After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
• Psalms 59:4I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Arise to help me; look on my plight!
• Psalms 119:86All your commands are trustworthy; help me, for I am being persecuted without cause.
• 1 Peter 2:19For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God.

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

Topics related to Job 21:27

• Self-Righteousness
• Wicked (People)

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