Job 21:17
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?
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- Job 18:5-6 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
- Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
- Ps 32:10 : 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he that trusteth in Jehovah, lovingkindness shall compass him about.
- Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
- Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth; But the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
- Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
- Prov 24:20 : 20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
- Matt 25:8 : 8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out.
- Luke 12:46 : 46 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the unfaithful.
- Rom 2:8-9 : 8 but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation, 9 tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
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5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
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24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.
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