Job 21:13
Their days are prolonged in wealth, yet, in an instant, they descend into hell.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
In Context
12They take up the timbrel and the lyre, and they rejoice at the sound of the organ.
14Who has said to God, “Depart from us, for we do not want the knowledge of your ways.
Cross References
Job 36:11If they listen and obey, they will fill their days with goodness and complete their years in glory.
Matthew 24:38For it will be just as it was in the days before the flood: eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, even until that day when Noah entered into the ark.
Luke 17:28It shall be similar to what happened in the days of Lot. They were eating and drinking; they were buying and selling; they were planting and building.
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 →