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Job 21:17
Job 21:17 is verse 17 of Job chapter 21, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
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?
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.
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?
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Job 21:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
16 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
19 It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
Proverbs 24:20For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
Matthew 25:8The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’
Psalms 32:10Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
Psalms 90:9For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
Luke 12:46The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate. Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
Romans 2:8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
Romans 2:9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;