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15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
16 [a]Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand:
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 [b]How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out?
That their calamity cometh upon them?
That God distributeth sorrows in his anger?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:16 Or, Ye say, Lo etc.
  2. Job 21:17 Or, How oft is the lamp of the wicked put out, And how oft cometh their calamity upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. They are as stubble . . . away.