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16 Is not their prosperity indeed their own achievement?[a]
    The plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.

17 ‘How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
    How often does calamity come upon them?
    How often does God[b] distribute pains in his anger?
18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    and like chaff that the storm carries away?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:16 Heb in their hand
  2. Job 21:17 Heb he

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