Job 21:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is 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

O my soul, come not into their council; O my spirit, be not joined to their company; for in their anger they slay men, and in their wantonness they hamstring oxen.

Job 1:21

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

Job 10:3

Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

Job 22:18

Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

Proverbs 1:10

My son, 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 man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

Luke 16:2

And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’

Luke 16:25

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