Job 21:17 Parallel Translations

"How often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does disaster happen to them? How often does an angry God give them pain?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

ASV:

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?

BBE:

How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?

DBY:

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows to them in his anger?

ERV:

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?

JPS:

How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? that their calamity cometh upon them? that He distributeth pains in His anger?

WBS:

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and how oft cometh their destruction upon them? God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

WEB:

"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

YLT:

How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.

Job 21:17 Cross References

XREF:

Job 18:5 "Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, And the flame of his fire gives no light.

Job 18:6 "The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him.

Job 31:2 "And what is the portion of God from above Or the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

Job 31:3 "Is it not calamity to the unjust And disaster to those who work iniquity? (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

21:17 Often - I grant that this happens often though not constantly, as you affirm. Lamp - Their glory and outward happiness.

MHC:

21:17-26 Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness and justice of God. Even while they prosper thus, they are light and worthless, of no account with God, or with wise men. In the height of their pomp and power, there is but a step between them and ruin. Job refers the difference Providence makes between one wicked man and another, into the wisdom of God. He is Judge of all the earth, and he will do right. So vast is the disproportion between time and eternity, that if hell be the lot of every sinner at last, it makes little difference if one goes singing thither, and another sighing. If one wicked man die in a palace, and another in a dungeon, the worm that dies not, and the fire that is not quenched, will be the same to them. Thus differences in this world are not worth perplexing ourselves about.

CONC:

Allots Anger Apportion Apportioneth Calamity Candle Cords Destruction Distribute Distributes Distributeth Evil-doers Extinguished Fall Fate Frequently Lamp Oft Often Pains Pangs Snuffed Sorrows Trouble Wicked Wrath

Allots Anger Apportion Apportioneth Calamity Candle Destruction Distributes Distributeth Evil-Doers Fall Fate Frequently Lamp Oft Often Pains Pangs Snuffed Sorrows Trouble Wicked Wrath

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