17 “How often is it that (A)the lamp of the wicked is put out?
    That their calamity comes upon them?
    That God[a] distributes pains in his anger?
18 That they are like (B)straw before the wind,
    and like (C)chaff that the storm carries away?
19 You say, ‘God (D)stores up their iniquity for their (E)children.’
    Let him pay it out to them, that they may (F)know it.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:17 Hebrew he

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