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17 “How often are their lamps blown out?
    How often does trouble come on them?
    How often does God punish them when he’s angry?
18 How often are they like straw blowing in the wind?
    How often are they like tumbleweeds swept away by a storm?
19 People say, ‘God stores up the punishment of evil people for their children.’
    But let God punish the evil people themselves.
    Then they’ll learn a lesson from it.

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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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