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Job 21:17

WEB

17How 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?

KJV

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

BSB

17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

FBV

17[+] How often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?[+] How often does disaster come upon them?[+] How often does God punish the wicked in his anger?


Extra References

Job 18:5-6

5Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine. 6The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.


Proverbs 20:20

20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.


Proverbs 13:9

9The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.


Psalms 32:10

10Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in the LORD.


Matthew 25:8

8[+] The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’


Psalms 90:7-9

7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. 8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.


Job 18:18

18He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.


Romans 2:8-9

8but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation, 9oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.


Proverbs 24:20

20for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.


Luke 12:46

46then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.