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Job 21:17-26

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17“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,

Or does their disaster fall on them?

Does God apportion destruction in His anger?

18“Are they as straw before the wind,

And like chaff which the storm carries away?

19“You say, ‘God saves up a person’s wrongdoing for his sons.’

Let God repay him so that he may know it.

20“Let his own eyes see his destruction,

And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

21“For what does he care about his household after him,

When the number of his months is at an end?

22“Can anyone teach God knowledge,

In that He judges those on high?

23“One dies in his full strength,

Being wholly undisturbed and at ease;

24His sides are filled with fat,

And the marrow of his bones is wet,

25While another dies with a bitter soul,

Never even tasting anything good.

26“Together they lie down in the dust,

And maggots cover them.