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Job 21:17

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15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

16 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

19 It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

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BSB
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
KJV
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
WEB
“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
ASV
How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger?
DARBY
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger?
BLB
How often [is] the lamp of the wicked put out, and their destruction comes upon them? The pains He apportions in His anger.
ÅB
Hvor ofte utslukkes vel de ugudeliges lampe, og hvor ofte hender det at ulykke kommer over dem? Hvor ofte tildeler han dem vel smerter i sin vrede?
OTB
"Hvor ofte slukkes de ondes lampe?
Hvor ofte rammer ulykken dem,
tildelt av Gud i hans vrede?
B1930
Hvor ofte utslukkes vel de ugudeliges lampe, og hvor ofte hender det at ulykke kommer over dem? Hvor ofte tildeler han dem vel smerter i sin vrede?

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