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Job 21:17
How oft, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out, and their calamity, cometh upon them, Sorrows, apportioneth he in his anger;
Job 21:17 · Rotherham Emphasised Bible
Job 21:17 in other translations
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
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In context
14 Yet they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure.
15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Or what shall we profit, that we should urge him?
16 Lo! not in their own hand, is their welfare, The counsel of lawless men, is far from me!
17 How oft, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out, and their calamity, cometh upon them, Sorrows, apportioneth he in his anger;
18 They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.
19 Shall, GOD, reserve, for his children, his sorrow? Let him recompense him so that he may know it;
20 His own eyes, shall see his misfortune, and, the wrath of the Almighty, shall he drink.
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