Job 21:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Job 21:16 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Job 22:18
Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Genesis 49:6
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Psalms 52:5-7
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. …
Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

Topics

Depravity of Man Guilt Popular Sins Rebellion Sin Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-16)

All Job’s three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. “It is true,” says Job, “remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always; for we have many instances of the great and long prosperity of those that are openly and avowedly wicked; though they are hardened in their wickedness…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. not in their hand--but in the hand of God. This is Job’s difficulty, that God who has sinners prosperity (good) in His hand should allow them to have it. is--rather, “may the counsel of the wicked be far from me!” [Umbreit]. This naturally follows the sentiment of the first clause: Let me not hereby be thought to regard with aught but horror the ways of the wicked, however prosperous.