Job 21:17 meaning and explanation
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
Job 21:17, Berean Standard Bible
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Job is answering his friends in the third of his speeches, and here he turns their own teaching into questions. They had insisted that God always puts out the lamp of the wicked, meaning that the prosperity of evildoers is brief and disaster soon follows.
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