Job 21:17
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Note candle: or, lamp
“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?
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?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- oft
- Job 18:5, 6, 18; Proverbs 13:9; Proverbs 20:20; Proverbs 24:20; Matthew 25:8
- candle
- or, lamp. distributeth.
- Psalm 32:10; Psalm 90:7–9; Luke 12:46; Romans 2:8, 9