Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 21:8

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 21:8 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 21:8. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the Book of Job, this means that some people have children who are healthy and stay close to them, making them happy and proud. They get to see their kids grow up and be with them.

Job 21:8: Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Contradiction with Psalm 37:25

This verse states that the righteous are never forsaken nor their descendants begging for bread, contradicting Job 21:8 which describes the wicked having stability and their offspring established before them.

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 13:22

This verse suggests that a good person leaves an inheritance to their children's children, contrary to Job 21:8, which implies the wicked also enjoy familial continuity and prosperity.

Proverbs 13:22: A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 8:12-13

This passage asserts that though a sinner may do evil a hundred times and prolong their days, it shall not be well with the wicked, conflicting with Job 21:8, which indicates the prosperity of the wicked's offspring.

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 Isaiah 57:21

This verse proclaims that there is no peace for the wicked, opposing Job 21:8 where the wicked have the comfort of seeing their children established.

Isaiah 57:21: [There is] no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

Contradiction with Malachi 4:1

This verse foretells of a day when the proud and wicked will be burned up, leaving them neither root nor branch, contradicting the notion in Job 21:8 that the wicked's children are established.

Malachi 4:1: For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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