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17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out
    or calamity fallen on them?
How often does He allot pain in His anger?
18 How often are they like straw before the wind;
    like chaff swept away by a storm?
19 You say, ‘God stores up the punishment for his children.’
    Let Him repay the wicked so 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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