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Job 21:17

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

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The surrounding passage

  1. Job 21:15

    What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

  2. Job 21:16

    Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  3. Job 21:18

    They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

  4. Job 21:19

    God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.