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15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
16 Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand?
    The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out?
    That their calamity comes upon them?
    That God[a] distributes pains in his anger?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:17 Heb he

15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?’(A)
16 But 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)

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