Job 21:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

Job 21:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 18:5-6
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. …
Proverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Luke 12:46
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.
Psalms 90:7-9
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-26)

Job had largely described the prosperity of wicked people; now, in these verses, I. He opposes this to what his friends had maintained concerning their certain ruin in this life. “Tell me how often do you see the candle of the wicked put out? Do you not as often see it burnt down to the socket, until it goes out of itself? Job 21:17. How often do you see their destruction come upon them, or God di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. Job in this whole passage down to Job 21:21 quotes the assertion of the friends, as to the short continuance of the sinner’s prosperity, not his own sentiments. In Job 21:22 he proceeds to refute them. “How oft is the candle” (lamp), &c., quoting Bildad’s sentiment (Job 18:5, 6), in order to question its truth (compare Mt 25:8). how oft--“God distributeth,” &c. (alluding to Job 20:23, 29). sor…