Job 21:17
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
KJV
Quoties lucerna impiorum extinguetur, et superveniet eis inundatio, et dolores dividet furoris sui ?
Vulgate
οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀσεβῶν λύχνος σβεσθήσεται, ἐπελεύσεται δὲ αὐτοῖς ἡ καταστροφή, ὠδῖνες δὲ ἕξουσιν αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ ὀργῆς.
LXX
How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? ThatGod distributeth sorrows in his anger?
ASV
כַּ/מָּ֤ה נֵר רְשָׁ֘עִ֤ים יִדְעָ֗ךְ וְ/יָבֹ֣א עָלֵ֣י/מוֹ אֵידָ֑/ם חֲ֝בָלִ֗ים יְחַלֵּ֥ק בְּ/אַפּֽ/וֹ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Job 18:5 — Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
- Job 18:5 — Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
- Job 29:3 — When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
- Prov 13:9 — The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
- Prov 13:9 — The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
- Prov 20:20 — Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
- Prov 24:20 — For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
- Rev 18:23 — And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth;