16 Indeed [a]their prosperity is not in their hand;
(A)The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
How often does their destruction come upon them,
The sorrows God (B)distributes in His anger?
18 (C)They are like straw before the wind,
And like chaff that a storm [b]carries away.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:16 Lit. their goal
  2. Job 21:18 steals away

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