Job 21:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ Was a wicked person's light ever put out?
    Did one of them ever meet with disaster?
Did God ever punish the wicked in anger
¹⁸     and blow them away like straw in the wind,
    or like dust carried away in a storm?

¹⁹ You claim God punishes a child for the sins of his father.
No! Let God punish the sinners themselves;
    let him show that he does it because of their sins.