How oft is the candle of the wicked put out?.... Job here returns, as Jarchi observes, to his former account of the constant and continued prosperity of wicked men; and puts questions tending to prove the same.
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Job 21:17
Job 21:17
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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