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17 How often does the lamp of the wicked flicker or disaster come upon them, with its fury inflicting pain on them?
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“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 Let them be like straw in the wind, like dry grass stolen by a storm.
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How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?
19 God stores up his punishment for his children. Let him destroy them so they know.
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It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’ Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!
20 Let their own eyes witness their doom. Let them drink from the Almighty's wrath.
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Let their own eyes see their destruction; let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 What do they care about their household after they die, when their numbered days are cut off?
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For what do they care about the families they leave behind when their allotted months come to an end?
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