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“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?
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Verse 17. How often. When do we witness the downfall of the wicked? Mercer.—Or, in a contrary sense, how often are they miserable as well as the just? Such things are, therefore, a very equivocal argument, to prove either side of the question. Those who are afflicted, and cling closer to God, must be accounted virtuous and happy; while that prosperity is fatal which is an occasion of our neglecting his service. Calmet.—Job answers his own questions, verse 7. If the wicked be happy for a time, their future state is deplorable, and often they forfeit even their temporal advantages. Menochius.
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