Job 21:16-18

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¹⁶Is not their prosperity indeed their own achievement?^[a]
The plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.

¹⁷“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
    How often does calamity come upon them?
    How often does God^[b] distribute pains in his anger?
¹⁸How often are they like straw before the wind,
    and like chaff that the storm carries away?

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Footnotes

Job 21:16 Heb in their hand
Job 21:17 Heb he

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