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Job 21:15-17
1599 Geneva Bible

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

16 Lo, their wealth is not in their [a]hand: therefore let the counsel of the wicked [b]be far from me.

17 How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out and their destruction come upon them? he will divide their lives in his wrath.

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  1. Job 21:16 It is not their own, but God only lendeth it unto them.
  2. Job 21:16 God keep me from their prosperity.
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Job 21:15-17
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15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?’(A)
16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.(B)

17 “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?(C)
    How often does calamity(D) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?(E)

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