17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
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.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. …
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…
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