16But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the counsel of the wicked.


In Context

13 They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

14 Yet they say to God, 'Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.

15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?'

16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the counsel of the wicked.

17 "Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?

18 How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?

Job 21:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:16Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:16Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:16Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:16Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:16Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:16Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:16See, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.