Job 21:16

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Summary

Job 21:16

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Lo

The counsel

Proverbs 5:8

General references

Job 9:29

Bible References

Lo

Then he said, "Naked I came out from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. Yahweh gives, and Yahweh takes. Let Yahweh's name be blessed."

Who among all of these does not know that Yahweh's hand has done this?

those who trust their wealth and boast about the abundance of their riches?

but God will pull you down forever. He will snatch you and tear you away from [your] tent, and [he] will uproot you from [the] land of [the] living. Selah

Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind, so also no one can control the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not deliver the wicked.

And he summoned him [and] said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give the account of your management, because you can no longer manage.'

The counsel

Yet he himself filled up their houses [with] good [things], but [the] schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.

Let not my person be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and at their pleasure they hamstrung cattle.

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of [the] wicked; nor does he stand in [the] way of sinners; nor does he sit in [the] assembly of mockers.

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

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

General references

[If] I shall be [declared] guilty, why then should I labor in vain?