Job 21:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Is not their prosperity indeed their own achievement? The plans of the wicked are repugnant to 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

May I never come into their council; may I not be joined to their company, for in their anger they killed men, and at their whim they hamstrung oxen.

Job 1:21

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 10:3

Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Job 22:18

Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.

Psalm 1:1

Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path that sinners tread or sit in the seat of scoffers,

Proverbs 1:10

My child, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

Proverbs 5:8

Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has power over the wind to restrain the wind or power over the day of death; there is no discharge from the battle, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Luke 16:2

So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management because you cannot be my manager any longer.’

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus in like manner evil things, but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.