Job 21:17

New Catholic Bible

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?

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

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?

¹⁷It seems that wicked people enjoy a long life.
They do not often have many troubles.
When God is angry with them,
he does not cause them to suffer.

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