Job 21:13
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
In Context
12They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
14Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Cross References
Job 36:11If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.
Matthew 24:38For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark,
Luke 17:28Likewise as it came to pass, in the days of Lot: they did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and 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 →