Job 21:16

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

¹⁵ Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
and what will we gain by pleading with Him?”
¹⁶ But their prosperity is not of their own doing.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me! ¹⁷ How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
Does disaster come on them?
Does He apportion destruction in His anger?

Job

No

Job 22:18

But it was He who filled their houses with good things.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

Psalm 1:1

BOOK I
(Psalms 1–41)How happy is the man
who does not follow the advice of the wicked
or take the path of sinners
or join a group of mockers!

Genesis 49:6

May I never enter their council;
may I never join their assembly.
For in their anger they kill men,
and on a whim they hamstring oxen.

Job 1:21

saying:

Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will leave this life.
The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.
Praise the name of Yahweh.

Job 12:9-10

Which of all these does not know
that the hand of the Lord has done this?

Psalm 49:6-7

They trust in their wealth
and boast of their abundant riches.

Psalm 52:5-7

This is why God will bring you down forever.
He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;
He will uproot you from the land of the living.Selah

Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners entice you,
don’t be persuaded.

Proverbs 5:8

Keep your way far from her.
Don’t go near the door of her house.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; there is no furlough in battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

Luke 16:2

So he called the manager in and asked, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you can no longer be my manager.’

Luke 16:25

“‘Son,’ Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.