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. {candle: or, lamp}
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Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. {lamp: or, candle}
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. {lamp: or, candle}
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. {He...: Heb. They shall drive him}
Many sorrows {shall be} to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
For there shall be no reward to the evil {man}; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. {candle: or, lamp}
The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for {him}, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. {cut...: or, cut him off}
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. {gone out: or, going out}
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
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; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
When his candle shined upon my head, {and when} by his light I walked {through} darkness; {candle: or, lamp}
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. {lamp: or, candle}
For there shall be no reward to the evil {man}; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. {candle: or, lamp}
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. {candle: or, lamp}
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just {men}, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked {men}, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also {is} vanity.
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. {gone out: or, going out}
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed {is} the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat {of} it all the days of thy life;