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Job 21:17-19
New International Version
Job 21:17-19
New International Version
17 “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?(A)
How often does calamity(B) come upon them,
the fate God allots in his anger?(C)
18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff(D) swept away(E) by a gale?(F)
19 It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’(G)
Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!(H)
Job 21:17-19
King James Version
Job 21:17-19
King James Version
17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
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Job 21:17-19
New King James Version
Job 21:17-19
New King James Version
17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
How often does their destruction come upon them,
The sorrows God (A)distributes in His anger?
18 (B)They are like straw before the wind,
And like chaff that a storm [a]carries away.
19 They say, ‘God [b]lays up [c]one’s iniquity (C)for his children’;
Let Him recompense him, that he may know it.
Job 21:17-19
English Standard Version
Job 21:17-19
English Standard Version
17 “How often is it that (A)the lamp of the wicked is put out?
That their calamity comes upon them?
That God[a] distributes pains in his anger?
18 That they are like (B)straw before the wind,
and like (C)chaff that the storm carries away?
19 You say, ‘God (D)stores up their iniquity for their (E)children.’
Let him pay it out to them, that they may (F)know it.
Footnotes
- Job 21:17 Hebrew he
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