King James Version (KJV)
Job 21:17
“How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.”
Verse in context — Job 21
15
What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
16
Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.
18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
19
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it].
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