Job 21:25
Other people die being very miserable; they have never experienced good things happening to them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
In Context
24Their bodies are fat; their bones are strong.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:8You know that your father and the men who are with him are strong soldiers, and that now they are very angry, like [SIM] a mother bear whose cubs have been stolen from her. Furthermore, your father knows how to fight because he has fought in many battles. He will not stay with his troops during the night.
Job 3:20◄“Why does God allow those who are suffering greatly like me to continue to remain alive?/I do not understand why God allows those who are suffering greatly like me to continue to remain alive.► [RHQ] Why does he allow those who are very miserable/distressed to keep living [RHQ]?
Job 9:18It is as though he will not let me get/catch my breath, because he causes me to suffer all the time.
Job 20:23When the wicked people are filling their stomachs, God will show that he is very angry with them and punish them; the punishment that he gives them will be like [MET] rain falling on them.
Ecclesiastes 6:2God enables some people to get a lot of money and possessions and to be honored; they have everything [LIT] that they want. But God sometimes does not allow them to continue to enjoy those things. Someone else gets them and enjoys them. That seems senseless and unfair.
Ezekiel 4:16Then he said to me, “You human, I will cause the supply of food to Jerusalem to be cut off. Then the people will eat the small amounts of food and drink the small amounts of water that the government permits them to have, and they will be very distressed and anxious as they do that,
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 →