Job 21:13
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 →