Job 21:17
How often is the lamp of the wicked quenched? and how often cometh over them their calamity? and doth [God] distribute their lot in his anger?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
16Lo, not in their hand doth their happiness rest! The counsel of the wicked be [still] far from me.
18Are they as straw before the wind, and as chaff which the stealeth away?
Cross References
Job 18:5Ah, truly the light of the wicked will be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not give light.
Psalms 32:10Many are the pains of the wicked; but him that trusteth in the Lord will he encompass with kindness.
Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous burneth joyfully; but the lamp of the wicked will be quenched.
Proverbs 24:20For there will be no [happy] future for the bad man: the lamp of the wicked will be quenched.
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 →