Job 21:13
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 21 connects to 8 cross-references. Job challenges his friends to listen carefully before mocking him. He observes the empirical reality that the wicked do prosper: they live long, multiply, and die in peace without experiencing the judgment his friends claim is inevitable. This chapter represents …
Other Translations
They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.
They wear out in good their days, And in a moment <FI>to<Fi> Sheol go down.
Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
Cross References
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
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And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son …
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, …
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those …
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they …
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them …