Job 21:16
For their good things were in their hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 49:6Let not my soul come into their counsel, and let not mine inward parts contend in their conspiracy, for in their wrath they slew men, and in their passion they houghed a bull.
Job 12:9Who then has not known in all these things, that the hand of the Lord has made them?
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of + 1:1 Gr. pestilent.evil men.
Psalms 52:5Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear:
Proverbs 5:8Remove thy way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:
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 →