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17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,
and their disaster comes upon them?
He[a] distributes pains in his anger.
18 How often are they like straw before[b] the wind,
and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19 ‘God stores up his iniquity for his children’?[c]
Then let him repay it to him that[d] he may know.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:17 The antecedent is “God,” or possibly “the Almighty”
  2. Job 21:18 Literally “to the faces of”
  3. Job 21:19 Or “You say, ‘God stores up his iniquity for his children.’”
  4. Job 21:19 Hebrew “and”

17 “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?(A)
    How often does calamity(B) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?(C)
18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff(D) swept away(E) by a gale?(F)
19 It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’(G)
    Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!(H)

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