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15 Who is Shaddai that we should serve him,
or[a] what would we benefit when we plead with him?’
16 Look, their prosperity is not in their hands;
the schemes of the wicked are repugnant[b] to me.
17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,
and their disaster comes upon them?
He[c] distributes pains in his anger.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:15 Hebrew “and”
  2. Job 21:16 Or “the plan of the wicked is repugnant”
  3. Job 21:17 The antecedent is “God,” or possibly “the Almighty”