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

17 “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?(A)
    How often does calamity(B) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?(C)
18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff(D) swept away(E) by a gale?(F)
19 It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’(G)
    Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!(H)

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