Job 21:16

Easy To Read Version

“It is true, evil people don’t make\par their own success.\par I can’t follow their advice.\par

Cross References

Genesis 49:6

They planned evil things in secret. My soul wants no part in their plans. I will not accept their secret meetings. They killed men when they were angry. And they hurt animals only for fun.

Job 1:21

He said:

Job 10:3

God, does hurting me make you happy?\par It seems that you don’t care about\par what you made.\par Or maybe you are happy\par with the plans that bad people make?\par

Job 22:18

And it was God who filled their houses\par with good things!\par No, I can’t follow the advice of evil people.\par

Psalm 1:1

A person will be truly happy if he\par doesn’t follow the advice of bad people\par and doesn’t live like sinners\par and doesn’t feel at home with people\par who don’t respect God. {\cf2\super [1]} \par

Proverbs 1:10

My son, some people love to do bad things—and those people will try to make you do bad things too. Don’t listen to them!

Proverbs 5:8

Stay away from the woman who does the sin of adultery. {\cf2\super [5]} Don’t even go near the door of her house.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No person has the power to keep his spirit from leaving. No person has the power to stop his death. During war, a soldier does not have the freedom to go any place he wants to go. In the same way, if a person does evil, that evil won’t allow him to be free.

Luke 16:2

So he called the manager in and said to him, ‘I have heard bad things about you. Give me a report of what you have done with my money. You can’t be my manager now!’

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘My child, remember when you lived? You had all the good things in life. But all the bad things happened to Lazarus. Now he is comforted here, and you are suffering.