Job 21:17

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

In context

15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

16 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

19 It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

BSB Berean Standard Bible: How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
KJV King James Version: How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
WEB World English Bible: “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
ASV American Standard Version: 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?
YLT Young's Literal Translation: How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
DBY Darby Translation: How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger?
WBS Webster Bible: How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and how oft cometh their destruction upon them? God distributeth sorrows in his anger.