17"Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?


In Context

14 Yet they say to God, 'Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.

15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?'

16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the counsel of the wicked.

17 "Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?

18 How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?

19 It is said, 'God stores up a man's punishment for his sons.' Let him repay the man himself, so that he will know it!

Job 21:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:17How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:17How 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?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows to them in his anger?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:17How 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?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and how oft cometh their destruction upon them? God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17|How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft comes their destruction on them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.