Job 21:17
How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, || And their calamity comes on them? He apportions pangs in His anger.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16Behold, their good [is] not in their hand || (The counsel of the wicked || Has been far from me).
18They are as straw before wind, || And as chaff a windstorm has stolen away,
Cross References
Job 18:5Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
Psalms 32:10Many [are] the pains of the wicked; As for him who is trusting in YHWH, || Kindness surrounds him.
Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous rejoices, || And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
Proverbs 24:20For there is not a posterity to the evil, || The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
Luke 12:46the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he does not look for [him], and in an hour that he does not know, and will cut him off, and he will appoint his portion with the unfaithful.
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 →