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.
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- Job 18:5–6 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
- Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
- Proverbs 20:20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.