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Job 21:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away? "

Job 21:18

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16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

19 You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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"Because the hope of the ungodly man is like chaff carried by the wind, and as foam vanishing before a tempest; and is scattered like smoke by the wind, and passes by as the remembrance of a guest who stays just a day."

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"“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation."

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"As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?"

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