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Job 21:17
How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
Job 21:17 · Young's Literal Translation
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 And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
15 What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
16 Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
17 How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
18 They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
19 God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him--and he knoweth.
20 His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.
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