¹⁷ "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?

⁵ "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

⁶ The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.

⁸ but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

⁹ oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, on the Jew first, and also on the Greek.

⁴⁶ then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

⁸ The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'

²⁰ For there will be no reward to the evil man; And the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

²⁰ Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

⁹ The light of the righteous shines brightly, But the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

⁷ For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, Our secret sins in the light of your presence.

⁹ For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

¹⁰ Many sorrows shall be to the wicked, But he who trusts in Yahweh, loving kindness shall surround him.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.