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Job 21:17

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“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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Job 21:17 in other translations

How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That God distributeth sorrows in his anger?

Job 21:17 · American Standard Version

Job 21:17 in context

  1. 15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
  2. 16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand.
    The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
  3. 17“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?
  4. 18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind,
    as chaff that the storm carries away?
  5. 19You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’
    Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.