Job 21:16

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

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‘Who [and what] is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
And what would we gain if we plead with Him?’
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“But notice, the prosperity of the wicked is not in their hand (in their power);
The counsel of the wicked [and the mystery of God’s dealings with the ungodly] is far from my comprehension. ¹⁷
“How often [then] is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out,
And that their disaster falls on them?
Does God distribute pain and destruction and sorrow [to them] in His anger?

Job

No

Job 22:18

“Yet He filled their houses with good things;
But the counsel of the wicked and ungodly is far from me.

Psalm 1:1

Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked [following their advice and example],
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit [down to rest] in the seat of scoffers (ridiculers).

Genesis 49:6

“O my soul, do not come into their secret council;
Let not my glory (honor) be united with their assembly [for I knew nothing of their plot];
Because in their anger they killed men [an honored man, Shechem, and the Shechemites],
And in their self-will they lamed oxen.

Job 1:21

He said,

“Naked (without possessions) I came [into this world] from my mother’s womb,
And naked I will return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 12:9-10

“Who among all these does not recognize [in all these things that good and evil are randomly scattered throughout nature and human life]
That the hand of the Lord has done this,

Psalm 49:6-7

Even those who trust in and rely on their wealth
And boast of the abundance of their riches?

Psalm 52:5-7

But God will break you down forever;
He will take you away and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners entice you,
Do not consent.

Proverbs 5:8

Let your way [in life] be far from her,
And do not go near the door of her house [avoid even being near the places of temptation],

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man who has power and authority over the wind to restrain the wind,
Nor does he have authority over the day of death;
There is no discharge [from service] during time of war,
And evil will not rescue those who [actively seek to] practice it.

Luke 16:2

So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management [of my affairs], for you can no longer be [my] manager.’

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things [all the comforts and delights], and Lazarus likewise bad things [all the discomforts and distresses]; but now he is comforted here [in paradise], while you are in severe agony.