Job 21:17
“How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.”
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
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Cross-References
“And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”
“Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.”
“The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.”
“Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.”
“The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.”