Job 21:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. 6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
  • Ps 32:10 : 10 Many `are' the pains of the wicked; As to him who is trusting in Jehovah, Kindness doth compass him.
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, 9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
  • Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
  • Prov 24:20 : 20 For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
  • Matt 25:8 : 8 and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;
  • Luke 12:46 : 46 the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for `him', and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.
  • Rom 2:8-9 : 8 and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

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