Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
In Context
12They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
14And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
Cross References
Job 36:11If they hearken and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Matthew 24:38For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until that day Noah entered into the ark.
Luke 17:28And likewise as it happened in the days of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:8-17
Prosperity of the Wicked; Abuse of Earthly Prosperity. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at… Read the whole commentary →