Job 21:16-18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁶Is not their prosperity indeed their own achievement?^[a]
The plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.^(A)

¹⁷“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
    How often does calamity come upon them?
    How often does God^[b] distribute pains in his anger?^(B)
¹⁸How often are they like straw before the wind
    and like chaff that the storm carries away?^(C)