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Job 21:16-18
New Catholic Bible
Job 21:16-18
New Catholic Bible
16 Is not the prosperity of the wicked
the result of their own efforts,
since they have never sought God’s help?
How Often?[a]
17 “Yet, how often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished?
How often does calamity befall them
as God in his anger uses his retribution to repay them?
18 How often are they like straw blown away by the wind
or like chaff that the storm carries off?
Footnotes
- Job 21:17 People say that the happiness of the wicked is fragile and ephemeral. Job skeptically asks how often this is really the case.
