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17 “How many times is the lamp of the sinful put out, that their trouble comes upon them? How often does God send trouble to them in His anger? 18 Are they like straw blown by the wind? Are they like straw that the storm carries away? 19 You say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his sons.’ Let God punish him so that he may know it.

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17 “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?(A)
    How often does calamity(B) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?(C)
18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff(D) swept away(E) by a gale?(F)
19 It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’(G)
    Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!(H)

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