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17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,
and their disaster comes upon them?
He[a] distributes pains in his anger.
18 How often are they like straw before[b] the wind,
and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19 ‘God stores up his iniquity for his children’?[c]
Then let him repay it to him that[d] he may know.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:17 The antecedent is “God,” or possibly “the Almighty”
  2. Job 21:18 Literally “to the faces of”
  3. Job 21:19 Or “You say, ‘God stores up his iniquity for his children.’”
  4. Job 21:19 Hebrew “and”