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

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

What is he, but he knoweth that the hand of the LORD made all these?

There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.

Therefore shall God destroy thee forever; he shall take thee, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Neither is there any man that hath power over the spirit, to keep still the spirit, nor to have any power in the time of death: it is not he also that can make an end of the battle, neither may ungodliness deliver him that meddleth withall.

And he called him, and said unto him, 'How is it, that I hear this of thee? Give accounts of thy stewardship. For thou mayest be no longer my steward.'

The counsel

He filled their houses with good things. But the council of the ungodly is far from me.

Into their secrets come not my soul, and unto their congregation be my honour not coupled: for in their wrath they slew a man, and in their self will they houghed an ox.

O Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful.

My son, consent not unto sinners,

Keep thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house:

General references

If I be then a wicked doer, why have I laboured in vain?