Bible verse
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
Job 21:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 21.
12 singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
13 They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
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?’
16 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?
19 It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
20 Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
KJV
Lo, their good [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.
ERV
Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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