Job 21:25
And this [one] dies with a bitter soul, || And has not eaten with gladness.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
In Context
24His breasts have been full of milk, || And marrow moistens his bones.
26Together they lie down on the dust, || And the worm covers them over.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:8And Hushai says, “You have known your father and his men, that they [are] heroes, and they are bitter in soul as a bereaved bear in a field, and your father [is] a man of war, and does not lodge with the people;
Job 3:20Why does He give light to the miserable, and life to the bitter soul?
Job 9:18He does not permit me to refresh my spirit, || But fills me with bitter things.
Job 20:23It comes to pass, at the filling of his belly, || He sends forth against him || The fierceness of His anger, || Indeed, He rains on him in his eating.
Ecclesiastes 6:2A man to whom God gives wealth, and riches, and honor, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desires, and God does not give him power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it; this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.
Ezekiel 4:16And He says to me, “Son of man, behold, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they have eaten bread by weight and with fear; and water by measure and with astonishment, they drink;
Matthew Henry on Job 21:18-27
Certain Punishments of the Wicked; Divine Sovereignty. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,… Read the whole commentary →