Job 21:25
And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
In Context
24His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.
26Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:8Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;
Job 3:20Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Job 9:18He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.
Job 20:23God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
Ecclesiastes 6:2A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
Ezekiel 4:16And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:
Matthew Henry on Job 21:18-27
Certain Punishments of the Wicked; Divine Sovereignty. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,… Read the whole commentary →