KJV King James Version
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.
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Job 21:17
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
WEB World English Bible
“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?
ASV American Standard Version
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?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
Surrounding context — Job 21
14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
15 What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
16 Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.
18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it].
20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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Job 18:5-6Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.Psalm 32:10Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.Matthew 25:8And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.Proverbs 24:20For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.Luke 12:46The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for [him], and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.Romans 2:8-9But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,Psalm 90:7-9For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
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