Job 21 · Verse 27

Job 21:27

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 21:27, King James Version

Job 21:27 in other translations

BSBBehold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
WEB“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
ASVBehold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.
YLTLo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
DARBYLo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
BBESee, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
WebsterBehold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

What does Job 21:27 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
27. Their wrongful thoughts against Job are stated by him in Job 21:28. They do not honestly name Job, but insinuate his guilt.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 27 I know your thoughts - Ye still think that, because I am grievously afflicted, I must therefore be a felonious transgressor.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 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.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Job 21:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הֵ֣ןhenhere!H2005
יָ֭דַעְתִּיYa.da'.tiI knowH3045
מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑םmach.she.vo.tei.Khemthoughts yourH4284
וּ֝מְזִמּ֗וֹתu.me.zi.Motand [the] schemesH4209
עָלַ֥י'a.Laion <the> meH5921
תַּחְמֹֽסוּ\׃tach.Mo.suyou do violenceH2554

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 21:27

  • Luke 5:22

    But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?

  • Psalms 119:86

    All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

  • 1 Peter 2:19

    For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

  • Job 42:7

    And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

  • Job 8:3-6

    Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

  • Job 15:20-35

    The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. …

  • Job 4:8-11

    Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

  • Job 20:29

    This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

  • Job 32:3

    Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

  • Job 20:5

    That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

  • Job 5:3-5

    I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

  • Psalms 59:4

    They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I know.
4:8-11; 5:3-5; 8:3-6; 15:20-35; 20:5,29; Lu 5:22
ye wrongfully.
32:3; 42:7; Ps 59:4; 119:86; 1Pe 2:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 21:26

    They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

  • Job 21:27

    Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

  • Job 21:28

    For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

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Job 21:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
He aquí, yo conozco vuestros pensamientos, y las imaginaciones que contra mí forjáis.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Voici, je connais vos pensées, et vos plans contre moi pour me faire violence.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Siehe, ich kenne eure Gedanken, und die Anschläge, womit ihr mir Gewalt antut.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Certe novi cogitationes vestras, et sententias contra me iniquas.