Job 21:13
They wear out their days in good, || And in a moment go down [to] Sheol.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
In Context
12They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, || And rejoice at the sound of a pipe.
14And they say to God, Turn aside from us, || And the knowledge of Your ways || We have not desired.
Cross References
Job 36:11If they hear and serve, || They complete their days in good, || And their years in pleasantness.
Matthew 24:38for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the Ark,
Luke 17:28in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were 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 →