““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?”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Job 21 contains 34 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.