Job 21:16 · KJV
“Lo, their good {is} not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.”
— Job 21:16
What {is} the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and {how oft} cometh their destruction upon them! {God} distributeth sorrows in his anger. {candle: or, lamp}
Job 21 — Context
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
15What {is} the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
16Lo, their good {is} not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and {how oft} cometh their destruction upon them! {God} distributeth sorrows in his anger. {candle: or, lamp}
18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. {carrieth: Heb. stealeth}
Cross References
Job 22:18
Yet he filled their houses with good {things}: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Psalms 1:1
Blessed {is} the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. {ungodly: or, wicked}
Psalms 52:5-7
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of {thy} dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. {destroy...: Heb. beat thee down}
Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Psalms 49:6-7
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Genesis 49:6
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. {digged...: or, houghed oxen}
Ecclesiastes 8:8
{There is} no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither {hath he} power in the day of death: and {there is} no discharge in {that} war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. {discharge: or, casting off weapons}
Proverbs 5:8
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: