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Selected Verse: Job 21:16 - Strong Concordance

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Job 21:16 Strong Concordance Lo, their good [02898] is not in their hand [03027]: the counsel [06098] of the wicked [07563] is far [07368] from me.
  King James Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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.
 
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17 How oft is the candle [05216] of the wicked [07563] put out [01846] ! and how oft cometh [0935] their destruction [0343] upon them! God distributeth [02505] sorrows [02256] in his anger [0639].