Job 21:17

Overview - Job 21
Job shews that even in the judgment of man he has reason to be grieved.
Sometimes the wicked prosper, though they despise God.
16 Sometimes their destruction is manifest.
21 The happy and unhappy are alike in death.
27 The judgment of the wicked is in another world.
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Job 21:17  (King James Version)
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
 


oft
Job 18:5 Job 18:6 Job 18:18 Proverbs 13:9 ; 20:20 24:20 Matthew 25:8

candle
or, lamp. distributeth.
Psalms 32:10 ; 90:7-9 Luke 12:46 ; Romans 2:8 Romans 2:9