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16 [a]Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand:
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 [b]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?
18 That they are as stubble before the wind,
And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:16 Or, Ye say, Lo etc.
  2. Job 21:17 Or, How oft is the lamp of the wicked put out, And how oft cometh their calamity upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. They are as stubble . . . away.