Job 21:16

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

¹⁵ ‘Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
And what would we gain if we entreat Him?’
¹⁶ “Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand;
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
¹⁷ “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,
Or does their calamity fall on them?
Does God apportion destruction in His anger?

Job

No

Job 22:18

“Yet He filled their houses with good things;
But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Psalm 1:1

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

Genesis 49:6

“Let my soul not enter into their council;
Let not my glory be united with their assembly;
Because in their anger they slew men,
And in their self-will they lamed oxen.

Job 1:21

He said,
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
And naked I shall return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 12:9-10

“Who among all these does not know
That the hand of the Lord has done this,

Psalm 49:6-7

Even those who trust in their wealth
And boast in the abundance of their riches?

Psalm 52:5-7

But God will break you down forever;
He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners entice you,
Do not consent.

Proverbs 5:8

Keep your way far from her
And do not go near the door of her house,

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.

Luke 16:2

And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.