¹⁷ “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?^(A)
    How often does calamity^(B) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?^(C)

⁹ The light of the righteous shines brightly,
    but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.^(A)

²⁰ If someone curses their father or mother,^(A)
    their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.^(B)

²⁸ You, Lord, keep my lamp^(A) burning;
    my God turns my darkness into light.^(B)