Job 21:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ See, is their good not in their own hand? (The counsel of the wrong has been far from me).

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Lo, their good is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ But notice, [you say] the prosperity of the wicked is not in their power; the mystery [of God's dealings] with the ungodly is far from my comprehension.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Look, isn’t their well-being the work of their own hands? A sinner’s logic is beyond me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ It is true that their good things are not in their power. May the counsel of the impious be far from me!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.

Job 21:16 Cross References

Genesis 49:6

“Let my being not enter their council, let my esteem not be united to their assembly; because they killed a man in their displeasure, and they lamed an ox in pleasure.

Job 1:21

And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I return there. יהוה has given, and יהוה has taken away. Blessed be the Name of יהוה.”

Job 10:3

Is it good to You that You should crush, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wrong?

Job 22:18

Yet He filled their houses with the good! (But the counsel of the wrong has been far from me).

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the man who shall not walk in the counsel of the wrong, And shall not stand in the path of sinners, And shall not sit in the seat of scoffers,

Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in.

Proverbs 5:8

Keep your way far from her, And do not come near the door of her house,

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one has power in the day of death. There is no discharge in battle, and wrongness does not release those who are given to it.

Luke 16:2

“So having called him he said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, for you are no longer able to be manager.’

Luke 16:25

“But Aḇraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your life you received your good, and likewise El‛azar the evil, but now he is comforted and you are suffering.