Job 21:17

Expanded Bible

¹⁷ Yet how often are the lamps of evil people ·turned off [extinguished; ^Cthe implied answer is not often; Job questions the type of teaching found in Proverbs; Prov. 24:19–20]?
    How often does ·trouble [calamity] come to them [Prov. 24:21–22]?
    How often ·do they suffer God’s angry punishment [^Ldoes he deal out pain in his anger]?