Job 21:17
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How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
In other translations
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
Hebrew words
כַּמָּה׀kamahhow often?H4100נֵר־ner-[the] lamp ofH5216רְשָׁעִיםresha'imwicked [people]H7563יִדְעָךְyid'akhis it extinguishedH1846וְיָבֹאveyavo'and it may come?H935עָלֵימוֹ'aleimovon themH5921אֵידָם'eidamcalamity theirH343חֲבָלִיםchavalimpain<s>H2256יְחַלֵּקyechalekdoes he apportion?H2505בְּאַפּוֹ׃be'apoin anger hisH639
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Job 18:5-65 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.5 Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. 6 The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
- Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
- Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
- Psalm 32:10Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
- Luke 12:46The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate. Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
- Matthew 25:8And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’
- Psalm 90:7-97 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.7 For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. 9 For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
- Proverbs 24:20For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
- Romans 2:8-98 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger. 9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;
- Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
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