Job 21:13
They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
In Context
12They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.
14They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
Cross References
Job 36:11If they obey and serue him, they shall end their dayes in prosperity, and their yeres in pleasures.
Matthew 24:38For as in the dayes before the flood, they did eate and drinke, marrie, and giue in mariage, vnto the day that Noe entred into the Arke,
Luke 17:28Likewise also, as it was in the dayes of Lot: they ate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they built.
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 →