Job 21:17
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?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
18Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
Cross References
Job 18:5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
Psalms 32:10Many sorrows hath the wicked; but he that confideth in Jehovah, loving-kindness shall encompass him.
Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous rejoiceth; but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Proverbs 24:20for there shall be no future to the evil [man]; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Luke 12:46the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:8-17
Prosperity of the Wicked; Abuse of Earthly Prosperity. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at… Read the whole commentary →