## See, is not their prosperity in their own hands? ##

Here "hand" refers to power or control. Job uses a question for emphasis. AT: "Look, these wicked people claim that they make themselves prosper" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

## The advice of the wicked is far from me ##

AT: "But I do not believe what they say"

## How often is it...How often does it happen ##

Job uses three questions to emphasize that it seems to him that God does not punish the wicked very often. AT: "It is not often...It is not often"

## that the lamp of the wicked ##

Job compares the life of the wicked to a lamp that is burning. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## the lamp of the wicked is put out ##

Job compares extinguishing the lamp to a person dying. AT: "that God causes them to die suddenly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

## they become like stubble before the wind or like chaff that the storm carries away ##

AT: "God takes them away like the wind blows away the chaff" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])