---
title: Job 21:7 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power? · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power? Who acts: wicked. Job 21:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.534/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/) / [chapter 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/21/) / [21:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.7/) / JPS 1

# Job 21:7 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** wicked · **What happens:** live, become, wax · **To what, where:** power

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Job 21:7 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JOB:534
# text = Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	wax	wax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present · do-support | the wicked |  |  |  |  | wherefore *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | infinitive | the wicked *not said here* |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **wax** | infinitive | the wicked *not said here* |  |  | power |  | mighty *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in power=Location |

<!-- .note -->
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
מַדּ֣וּעַ רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִחְי֑וּ עָ֝תְק֗וּ גַּם־גָּ֥בְרוּ חָֽיִל׃

[Job 21:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.7/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:534` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Job 21:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.533/)
- next →: [Job 21:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.535/)
- ↑ back to [Job 21:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.7/)