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Job 21:16
Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.
Job 21:16 · Geneva Bible
Job 21:16 in other translations
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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In context
13 They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.
14 They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
15 Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
16 Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.
17 How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.
18 They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
19 God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.
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