Job 21:13
New International Version
They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

New Living Translation
They spend their days in prosperity, then go down to the grave in peace.

English Standard Version
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

Berean Standard Bible
They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

King James Bible
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

New King James Version
They spend their days in wealth, And in a moment go down to the grave.

New American Standard Bible
“They spend their days in prosperity, And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

NASB 1995
“They spend their days in prosperity, And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

NASB 1977
“They spend their days in prosperity, And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

Legacy Standard Bible
They spend their days in prosperity, And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

Amplified Bible
“They fully enjoy their days in prosperity, And so go down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) in a [peaceful] moment.

Christian Standard Bible
They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

American Standard Version
They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They spend their days in prosperity, and quickly to Sheol they descend

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

Contemporary English Version
and they are successful, without a worry, until the day they die.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.

English Revised Version
They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They spend their days in happiness, and they go peacefully to the grave.

Good News Translation
They live out their lives in peace and quietly die without suffering.

International Standard Version
They grow old in prosperity, as they descend peacefully into the afterlife.

JPS Tanakh 1917
They spend their days in prosperity, And peacefully they go down to the grave.

Literal Standard Version
They wear out their days in good, | And in a moment go down [to] Sheol.

Majority Standard Bible
They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

New American Bible
They live out their days in prosperity, and tranquilly go down to Sheol.

NET Bible
They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

New Revised Standard Version
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

New Heart English Bible
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

Webster's Bible Translation
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

World English Bible
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

Young's Literal Translation
They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.

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Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
12singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute. 13They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace. 14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.…

Cross References
Judges 20:34
Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.

Job 3:13
For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

Job 21:12
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

Job 21:23
One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.

Job 22:16
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Job 24:19
As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Job 36:11
If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.


Treasury of Scripture

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

They

Job 36:11
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Psalm 73:4
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

Matthew 24:38,39
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, …

wealth.

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Job 21
1. Job shows that even in the judgment of man he has reason to be grieved
7. Sometimes the wicked prosper, though they despise God
16. Sometimes their destruction is manifest
21. The happy and unhappy are alike in death
27. The judgment of the wicked is in another world














(13) In a moment.--They go down to death without being made to feel the lingering tortures that Job had to undergo.

Verse 13. - They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. They die, i.e. without suffering from any prolonged or severe illness, such as that grievous affliction from which Job himself was suffering. Probably Job does not mean to maintain all this absolutely, or as universally the case, but he wishes to force his friends to acknowledge that there are many exceptions to their universal law, that wickedness is always visited in this world with condign punishment, and he wants them to account for them exceptions (see ver. 7).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They spend
יְכַלּ֣וּ (yə·ḵal·lū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1086: To fail, to wear out, decay

their days
יְמֵיהֶ֑ם (yə·mê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day

in prosperity
בַטּ֣וֹב (ḇaṭ·ṭō·wḇ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

and go down
יֵחָֽתּוּ׃ (yê·ḥāt·tū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5181: To sink, descend, to press, lead down

to Sheol
שְׁא֣וֹל (šə·’ō·wl)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death)

in peace.
וּ֝בְרֶ֗גַע (ū·ḇə·re·ḡa‘)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7281: A wink, a very short space of time


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