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16 Look, their prosperity is not in their hands;
the schemes of the wicked are repugnant[a] to me.
17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,
and their disaster comes upon them?
He[b] distributes pains in his anger.
18 How often are they like straw before[c] the wind,
and like chaff that the storm carries away?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:16 Or “the plan of the wicked is repugnant”
  2. Job 21:17 The antecedent is “God,” or possibly “the Almighty”
  3. Job 21:18 Literally “to the faces of”