Job 21:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ Lo, their prosperity is not 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 thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their selfwill they houghed an ox.

Job 1:21

and he said, Naked came : I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall : I return thither: The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Job 10:3

Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Job 22:18

Yet he fired their houses with good things: But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful

Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.

Proverbs 5:8

Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house:

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

Luke 16:2

And he called him, and said unto him, What is this that I hear of thee? render the account of thy stewardship; for thou canst be no longer steward.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish.