27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
27 "I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
27 "Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.
27 "I'm not deceived. I know what you're up to, the plans you're cooking up to bring me down.
27 "Look, I know your thoughts, And the schemes with which you would wrong me.
27 "Look, I know what you're thinking. I know the schemes you plot against me.
2 In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises.
2 In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
2 Full of hot air, the wicked are hot on the trail of the poor. Trip them up, tangle them up in their fine-tuned plots.
2 The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
2 The wicked arrogantly hunt down the poor. Let them be caught in the evil they plan for others.
(Read Psalm 10:1-11)
God's withdrawings are very grievous to his people, especially in times of trouble. We stand afar off from God by our unbelief, and then complain that God stands afar off from us. Passionate words against bad men do more hurt than good; if we speak of their badness, let it be to the Lord in prayer; he can make them better. The sinner proudly glories in his power and success. Wicked people will not seek after God, that is, will not call upon him. They live without prayer, and that is living without God. They have many thoughts, many objects and devices, but think not of the Lord in any of them; they have no submission to his will, nor aim for his glory. The cause of this is pride. Men think it below them to be religious. They could not break all the laws of justice and goodness toward man, if they had not first shaken off all sense of religion.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 21:27
Commentary on Job 21:27-34
(Read Job 21:27-34)
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 to be proud of the prospect of. He shall have a stately monument. And a valley with springs of water to keep the turf green, was accounted an honourable burial place among eastern people; but such things are vain distinctions. Death closes his prosperity. It is but a poor encouragement to die, that others have died before us. That which makes a man die with true courage, is, with faith to remember that Jesus Christ died and was laid in the grave, not only before us, but for us. That He hath gone before us, and died for us, who is alive and liveth for us, is true consolation in the hour of death.