Job 21:17 BSB — MannaFest

Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

BSB

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ASV

How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That God distributeth sorrows in his 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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XV (604)

Ver. 17. How often shall their candle be put out? and how oft shall a flood come over them, and shall He divide sorrows in His fury? 55. It often happens that the wicked man reckons the life of his children as a 'candle,' but when the son, that is loved overmuch, is taken away, what seemed the 'light' of the wicked is 'put out.'

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? - Margin, “lamp.” A light, or a lamp, was an image of prosperity. There is, probably, an allusion here to what had been maintained by Bildad, Job 18:5-6, that the light of the wicked would be extinguished, and their dwellings made dark; see the notes at those verses. Job replies to this by asking how often it occurred. He inquires whether it was a frequent thing. By this, he implies that it was not universal; that it was a less frequent occurrence than they supposed.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כַּמָּ֤ה׀	ka.Mah	how often?	H4100 →
נֵר־	ner-	[the] lamp of	H5216 →
רְשָׁ֘עִ֤ים	re.Sha.'Im	wicked [people]	H7563 →
יִדְעָ֗ךְ	yid.'Akh	is it extinguished	H1846 →
וְיָבֹ֣א	ve.ya.Vo'	and it may come?	H935 →
עָלֵ֣ימוֹ	'a.Lei.mov	on them	H5921 →
אֵידָ֑ם	'ei.Dam	calamity their	H343 →
חֲ֝בָלִ֗ים	cha.va.Lim	pain<s>	H2256 →
יְחַלֵּ֥ק	ye.cha.Lek	does he apportion?	H2505 →
בְּאַפּֽוֹ׃	be.'a.Po	in anger his	H639 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
leads to
- Proverbs 24:20
  For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 4:18
  The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
- Proverbs 20:20
  Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
- Psalms 112:4
  Light dawns in the darkness for the upright— for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
Through
Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
leads to
- Exodus 21:17
  Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
- Proverbs 30:11
  There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
- Proverbs 30:17
  As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
- Jude 1:13
  They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

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Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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About Job