Job 21:17

World English Bible (2000)

"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?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tent. 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 come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
  • Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  • Prov 24:20 : 20 for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
  • Matt 25:8 : 8 The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'
  • Luke 12:46 : 46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
  • Rom 2:8-9 : 8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, 9 oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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

  • Job 21:16
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    16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Job 18:5-7
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    5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

    7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Job 31:3
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    3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

  • Job 21:30-31
    2 verses
    76%

    30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

    31 Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

  • Prov 24:20
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    20 for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

  • Prov 13:9
    75%

    9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

  • Prov 21:12
    74%

    12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

  • Job 21:7
    74%

    7 "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

  • Job 21:20
    74%

    20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Prov 21:7
    73%

    7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • Jer 23:19
    73%

    19 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

  • Ps 11:6
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    6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

  • Isa 9:18
    73%

    18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

  • Job 15:20-21
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    73%

    20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

    21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

  • Job 22:20
    73%

    20 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

  • Job 38:15
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    15 From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

  • Job 20:28-29
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    72%

    28 The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.

    29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God."

  • Ps 112:10
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    10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

  • Eccl 5:17
    72%

    17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

  • Job 22:18
    72%

    18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Job 27:13
    72%

    13 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

  • Ps 73:19
    72%

    19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • Isa 3:11
    72%

    11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

  • Isa 17:14
    72%

    14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Ps 69:24
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    24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

  • Prov 6:15
    71%

    15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • Job 10:3
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    3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

  • Job 34:25-26
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    25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

    26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

  • Jer 30:23
    71%

    23 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

  • Job 36:17
    71%

    17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Prov 24:22
    71%

    22 for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both--who knows?

  • Ps 92:7
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    7 though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

  • Ps 21:9
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    9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

  • Job 3:20
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    20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

  • Ezek 21:31
    71%

    31 I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

  • Job 20:26
    70%

    26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

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    7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

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    22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

  • Prov 1:27
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    27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

  • Ezek 22:31
    70%

    31 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Job 31:12
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    12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.