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17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
    How often does destruction come upon them,
    the portion God allots in his anger?

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The light of the just gives joy,
    but the lamp[a] of the wicked goes out.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:9 Light…lamp: symbols of life and prosperity; cf. 4:18–19.

20 For the evil have no future,
    the lamp of the wicked will be put out.(A)

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