Job 21:17
How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? that their calamity cometh upon them? that God distributeth sorrows in his anger?
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
16Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
18That they are 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 spark of his fire shall not shine.
Psalms 32:10Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Proverbs 24:20For there will be no reward to the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Luke 12:46the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and 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 →