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17 ‘How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
    How often does calamity come upon them?
    How often does God[a] distribute pains in his anger?
18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19 You say, “God stores up their iniquity for their children.”
    Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:17 Heb he

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