Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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. Maurer translates, 'Lo, is not their good in their hand!' Does not good fortune attend them everywhere? Dathius takes the words as ironical, as much as to say, Surely you cannot say that 'their good is not in their hand' - i:e., is not solid and lasting. is-rather, 'may the counsel of the wicked be far from me! (Umbreit.) This naturally follows the sentiment of the first clause. Yet let me not hereby be thought to regard with aught but horror the ways of the wicked, however prosperous.