17 How often is the lamp(A) of the wicked put out?
Does disaster[a] come on them?
Does He apportion destruction in His anger?
18 Are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff(B) a storm sweeps away?
19 God reserves a person’s punishment for his children.(C)
Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:17 Lit their disaster

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