Job 21:12
Some children dance and sing, while others shake tambourines and play lyres, and they are happy when they hear people playing flutes.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 31:27Why did you run away and deceive me? Why did you not tell me that you were going to leave, so that we could have rejoiced and sung while people played music on tambourines and harps before I said ‘goodbye’ to you?
Isaiah 5:12They have big parties and provide lots of wine. At their parties, there are people playing harps and lyres and tambourines and flutes, but they never think about what Yahweh does or appreciate what he has created.
Amos 6:4You lie on beds decorated with expensive ivory, and on soft couches. You eat the tender meat of lambs and fat calves.
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 →