King James Version (KJV)
Job 21:16
“Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.”
Verse in context — Job 21
14
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
15
What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
16
Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.
18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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