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16 But I know that their prosperity is not in their own hands,
so I have distanced myself from the way of life[a] of the wicked.

17 How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished?
How often does the disaster they deserve come upon them?
How often does God in his anger dole out their fair share of pain?
18 How often are they like straw blown by the wind,
like chaff that a windstorm whisks away?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:16 Or mind-set