Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
In Context
12singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Cross References
Job 36:11If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
Matthew 24:38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
Luke 17:28It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, 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 →