Job 21:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

How oft shal the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe quenched, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.
  • Ps 32:10 : 10 Many sorowes shall come to the wicked: but he, that trusteth in the Lorde, mercie shall compasse him.
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our dayes are past in thine anger: we haue spent our yeeres as a thought.
  • Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous reioyceth: but the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 He that curseth his father or his mother, his light shalbe put out in obscure darkenes.
  • Prov 24:20 : 20 For there shall bee none ende of plagues to the euill man: the light of the wicked shall bee put out.
  • Matt 25:8 : 8 And the foolish said to the wise, Giue vs of your oyle, for our lampes are out.
  • Luke 12:46 : 46 The master of that seruant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and at an houre when he is not ware of, and will cut him off, and giue him his portion with the vnbeleeuers.
  • Rom 2:8-9 : 8 But vnto them that are contentious and disobey the trueth, and obey vnrighteousnesse, shalbe indignation and wrath. 9 Tribulation and anguish shalbe vpon the soule of euery man that doeth euill: of the Iewe first, and also of the Grecian.

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