Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XXI. This is Job's reply to Zophar's discourse, in which he complains less of his own miseries than he had done in his former discourses (finding that his friends were not moved by his complaints to pity him in the least), and comes closer to the…