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Job 21:17
New Catholic Bible
Job 21:17
New Catholic Bible
How Often?[a]
17 “Yet, how often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished?
How often does calamity befall them
as God in his anger uses his retribution to repay them?
Footnotes
- Job 21:17 People say that the happiness of the wicked is fragile and ephemeral. Job skeptically asks how often this is really the case.
Job 21:17
King James Version
Job 21:17
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.
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