Job 21:15-17

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁵What is the Almighty,^[a] that we should serve him?
And what profit do we get if we pray to him?”
¹⁶Is not their prosperity indeed their own achievement?^[b]
The plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.

¹⁷‘How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
How often does calamity come upon them?
How often does God^[c] distribute pains in his anger?

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Notas al pie

Job 21:15 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Job 21:16 Heb in their hand
Job 21:17 Heb he

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

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