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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 21:16 - 21:16
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not in their hand - but in the hand of God. This is Job’s difficulty, that God who has sinners prosperity (good) in His hand should allow them to have it.
is - rather, “may the counsel of the wicked be far from me!” [Umbreit]. This naturally follows the sentiment of the first clause: Let me not hereby be thought to regard with aught but horror the ways of the wicked, however prosperous.