Job 21:17-19

New Century Version

¹⁷ Yet how often are the lamps of evil people turned off?
    How often does trouble come to them?
    How often do they suffer God’s angry punishment?
¹⁸ How often are they like straw in the wind
    or like chaff that is blown away by a storm?
¹⁹ It is said, ‘God saves up a person’s punishment for his children.’
    But God should punish the wicked themselves so they will know it.