Devine Scripture

Job 21:16

Job chapter 21 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

v.16This passage

v.17How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? ThatGod distributeth sorrows in his anger?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 8:8

    There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

  • Job 1:21

    and he said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.

  • Job 22:18

    Yet he filled their houses with good things: But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Proverbs 1:10

    My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.

  • Psalms 1:1

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers:

  • Luke 16:2

    And he called him, and said unto him, What is this that I hear of thee? render the account of thy stewardship; for thou canst be no longer steward.