Job 21:16
Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
In Context
15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
Cross References
Genesis 49:6Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall. Slew a man,... viz., Sichem the son of Hemor, with all his people, Gen. 34.; mystically and prophetically it alludes to Christ, whom their posterity, viz., the priests and the scribes, put to death.
Job 12:9Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these things?
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:
Psalms 52:5Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?
Proverbs 5:8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.
Luke 16:2And he called him and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:8-17
Prosperity of the Wicked; Abuse of Earthly Prosperity. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at… Read the whole commentary →