What does Job 21:17 mean?
ESV: "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?
NIV: "Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?
NASB: 'How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, Or does their disaster fall on them? Does God apportion destruction in His anger?
CSB: How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come on them? Does he apportion destruction in his anger?
NLT: 'Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished. Do they ever have trouble? Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger?
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.
NKJV: “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does their destruction come upon them, The sorrows God distributes in His anger?
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