16 Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand?
    (A)The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 “How often is it that (B)the lamp of the wicked is put out?
    That their calamity comes upon them?
    That God[a] distributes pains in his anger?
18 That they are like (C)straw before the wind,
    and like (D)chaff that the storm carries away?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:17 Hebrew he

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