Job 21:15-17

New King James Version

¹⁵^(A)Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
And ^(B)what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’
¹⁶Indeed ^[a]their prosperity is not in their hand;
^(C)The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁷“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
How often does their destruction come upon them,
The sorrows God ^(D)distributes in His anger?

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Job 21:16 Lit. their goal

Job 21:15-17

New International Version

¹⁵Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
What would we gain by praying to him?’^(A)
¹⁶But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.^(B)

¹⁷“Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?^(C)
How often does calamity^(D) come upon them,
the fate God allots in his anger?^(E)