Job 21:17

World English Bible (WEB)

“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?

In context

15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 “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?

18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

19 You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

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?
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.
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?
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.