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Job 21:13

Wicked people enjoy having good things all the time that they are alive, and they die quietly/peacefully and go down to the place of the dead.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

In Context

12Some children dance and sing, while others shake tambourines and play lyres, and they are happy when they hear people playing flutes.

14While they are alive, they say to God, ‘Do not bother us; we do not want to know how you want us to conduct our lives!

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Cross References

Job 36:11If they ◄listen to/heed► him and serve him, after they get out of prison they will prosper for all the years that they are alive and be peaceful/happy.

Luke 17:28Similarly, when Lot lived in Sodom city, people there ate and drank as usual. They bought things and they sold things. They planted crops and they built houses as usual.

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 →

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