Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 21:10

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 21:10 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 21:10. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Job, this verse means that some people, even if they don't seem to be doing good things, have animals that are healthy and strong. Their cows and bulls always have baby animals without problems.

Job 21:10: Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 28:4

Blessing is promised for the fruit of the cattle, which seems to contradict the complaints in Job about blessing the wicked.

Deuteronomy 28:4: Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Contradiction with Psalm 37:25

It states the righteous will not be forsaken, suggesting a different outcome than Job's struggle with prosperity among the wicked.

Psalm 37:25: I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Contradiction with Proverbs 3:33

The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked, seemingly opposing the prosperity of the wicked described in Job.

Proverbs 3:33: The curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 8:12-13

Contradicts the idea in Job by stating that it will not be well with the wicked, opposing the observed prosperity.

Ecclesiastes 8:12-13: Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his [days] be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

Contradiction with Jeremiah 12:1

Questions why the way of the wicked prospers, aligning with Job's observations but showing a contrast to expected divine justice.

Jeremiah 12:1: Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously? [talk...: or, reason the case with thee]

Contradiction with Malachi 3:18

Distinguishes between the righteous and wicked, with an implication of different outcomes than depicted in Job.

Malachi 3:18: Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
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