World English Bible
Job 21:16
“Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.”
Verse in context — Job 21
14
They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?
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Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17
How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
18
How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
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