Job 21:16

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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In The King James Version

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

In Context

15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

17How often is the candle of the wicked put out! and how often comes their destruction upon them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:6O my soul, come not you into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not you united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they dug down a wall.

Job 12:9Who knows not in all these that the hand of the LORD has wrought this?

Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

Psalms 52:5God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

Proverbs 5:8Remove your way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

Luke 16:2And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of you? give an account (o. logos) of your stewardship; for you may be no longer steward.

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 →

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