Lo, their good (i.e., their prosperity) is not in their own hand. — And that constitutes the mystery of it, for it is God who gives it to them; or the words may be a hypothetical answer to his statement, thus, “Lo, thou repliest, their prosperity is not,” &c.; and then the words, “the counsel of the wicked is far from me,” are Job’s indignant repudiation of all knowledge of their reasoning.
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Job 21:16
16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.