Job 21:16
Nevertheless for their goods be not in their hand, or power, the counsel of wicked men be far from me. (And (they say), that all their good things come from their own hands, (or their own effort); may the counsel of the wicked be far from me!)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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 Almighty God, that we serve him? and what profiteth it to us, if we pray (to) him?
Cross References
Genesis 49:6my soul come not into the counsel of them, and my glory be not in the congregation of them; for in their strong vengeance, they killed a man, and in their [own] will, they undermined the wall, (or for in their anger, they have killed some men, and to make sport, they have wounded some oxen);
Job 12:9Who knoweth not that the hand of the Lord made all these things?
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man, that goeth not in the counsel of wicked men; and stood not in the way of sinners, and sat not in the chair of pestilence. (Happy is the person, who goeth not in the counsel of the wicked; and walketh not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the chair of pestilence.)
Psalms 52:5Therefore God shall destroy thee into the end, he shall draw thee out by the root, and he shall make thee to pass away from thy tabernacle; and thy root from the land of living men. (And so God shall destroy thee, or ruin thee, forever, yea, he shall draw thee out, and he shall make thee go far away from thy home; he shall root thee out from the land of the living.)
Proverbs 5:8Make far thy way from her (or Make thy way far away from her), and nigh thou not to the doors of her house.
Luke 16:2And he called him, and said to him, What hear I this thing of thee? (or Why do I hear this about thee?) yield (the) reckoning (or the accounting) of thy bailiffship, for thou might not now be bailiff, [+or yield reason of thy farm, for now thou shalt no more hold the farm].
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 →