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Job 21:17

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¶ How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.

How oft is the candle {H5216} of the wicked {H7563} put out {H1846}! and how oft cometh {H935} their destruction {H343} upon them! God distributeth {H2505} sorrows {H2256} in his anger {H639}.

"How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does their calamity come upon them? How often does [God] deal out pain in his anger,

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

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Cross-References

  • Job 18:5 (5 votes)

    ¶ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

  • Job 18:6 (5 votes)

    The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • Luke 12:46 (2 votes)

    The 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.

  • Job 18:18 (2 votes)

    He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Psalms 90:7 (2 votes)

    ¶ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

  • Psalms 90:9 (2 votes)

    For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].

  • Romans 2:8 (2 votes)

    But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,