Job 21:16
14 Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
- KJV
- Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- WEB
- Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- ASV
- Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- DARBY
- Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
- BLB
- Behold, their own good [is] not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- ÅB
- Ja[^1], men deres lykke står ikke i deres egen hånd. - [^2]De ugudeliges tanker er langt fra mine tanker.
- OTB
- Sannelig, deres velstand er ikke i deres egne hender,
så jeg holder meg borte fra de ondes råd. - B1930
- Ja, men deres lykke står ikke i deres egen hånd. - De ugudeliges tanker er langt fra mine tanker. / < vil I si.> / < Her begynner Jobs svar.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 22:18
But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
Read in contextPsalms 1:1
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
Read in contextProverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
Read in contextPsalms 52:5–7
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
Read in contextPsalms 49:6–7
They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
Read in contextGenesis 49:6
May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
Read in contextLuke 16:25
But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
Read in contextProverbs 5:8
Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
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