Job 21:17-19

Expanded Bible

¹⁷ Yet how often are the lamps of evil people ·turned off [extinguished; ^Cthe implied answer is not often; Job questions the type of teaching found in Proverbs; Prov. 24:19–20]?
    How often does ·trouble [calamity] come to them [Prov. 24:21–22]?
    How often ·do they suffer God’s angry punishment [^Ldoes he deal out pain in his anger]?
¹⁸ ·How often are they [or Let them be] like straw in the wind
    or like chaff that is blown away by a storm [Ps. 1:4]?
¹⁹ It is said [^Cdefenders of the idea that the wicked suffer for their sins], ‘God ·saves [stores] up a person’s ·punishment [guilt] for his children.’
    But God should ·punish [pay back] the wicked themselves so they will know it.