Job 21:13

Job 21:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They spend their days in wealth, And in a moment go down to the grave.
• New Living Translation (NLT)They spend their days in prosperity, then go down to the grave in peace.

Context of Job 21:13

11They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about. 12They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre; they make merry to the sound of the pipe. They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace. 14Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways. 15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’

Job 21:13 word by word

יְכַלּ֣וּ בַטּ֣וֹב יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וּ֝בְרֶ֗גַע שְׁא֣וֹל יֵחָֽתּוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• They spendבָּלָהbâlâh · to become oldH1086
• They spendכָּלָהkâlâh · to end: finishH3615
• their daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• in wealthטוֹבţôb · goodH2896
• and in a momentרֶ֫גַעrega‛ · momentH7281
• go downנָחֵתnâchath · to descendH5181
• go downחָתַתchâthath · to to be dismayedH2865
• to the graveשְׁאוֹלshe'ôl she'ôl · hell: SheolH7585

Cross-references for Job 21:13

• Job 36:11If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.
• Psalms 73:4They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong.
• Matthew 24:38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
• Luke 12:19And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” ’
• Luke 17:28“It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

Commentaries on Job 21:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13They spend their days in wealth - There is a various reading here of some importance. In the text we have יבלו yeballu, they grow old, or wear out as with old age, terent vetustate; and in the margin, יכלו yechallu, they consume; and the Masora states that this is one of the eleven words which are written with ב beth and must be read with כ caph . Several editions have the former word in the text, and the latter in the margin; the former being what is…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13They spend their days in wealth - Margin, or, “mirth.” Literally, “they wear out their days in good” - בטוב baṭôb Vulgate “in bonis.” Septuagint, ̓ ̓͂ en agathois - “in good things;” in the enjoyment of good. They are not oppressed with the evils of poverty and want, but they have abundance of “the good things” of life. And in a moment go down to the grave - Hebrew to שׁאול she'ôl - but here meaning evidently the grave. The idea is, that when they die…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-16Verses 7-16 Job says, Remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always. Wherefore is it so? This is the day of God's patience; and, in some way or other, he makes use of the prosperity of the wicked to serve his own counsels, while it ripens them for ruin; but the chief reason is, because he will make it appear there is another world. These prospering sinners make light of God and religion, as if because they have so much…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. wealth--Old English Version for "prosperity." in a moment--not by a lingering disease. Great blessings! Lengthened life with prosperity, and a sudden painless death (Psa 73:4).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 21:13

• Amusements and Worldly Pleasures
• Blasphemy
• Death
• Happiness
• Hell
• Pleasure
• Rich, the
• Sin
• Wicked (People)
• Worldliness

Commentaries on Job 21

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings