Job 21:12
Good News Translation
and dance to the music of harps and flutes.

New Revised Standard Version
They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

Contemporary English Version
These people sing and celebrate to the sound of tambourines, small harps, and flutes,

New American Bible
They sing along with drum and lyre, and make merry to the sound of the pipe.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Genesis 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of them that play upon the harp and the organs.

Genesis 31:27 Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?

Isaiah 5:12 The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Isaiah 22:13 And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

Amos 6:4-6 You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your couches: that eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the herd; . . .

Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
11Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play. 12They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.…
Cross References
Genesis 31:27
Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?

Job 21:11
Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.

Job 21:13
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.

Psalm 150:4
Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs.

Job 21:11
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