Job: God Will Punish the Wicked
Job 21:13
In 11 translations
- BSB
- They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.Or in an instant
- KJV
- They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.in wealth: or, in mirth
- WEB
- They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.Sheol is the place of the dead.
- ASV
- They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.
- LSV
- They wear out their days in good, || And in a moment go down [to] Sheol.
- YLT
- They wear out in good their days, And in a moment [to] Sheol go down.
- DBY
- They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
- DRC
- They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.
- GNV
- They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.
- JPS
- They spend their days in prosperity, and peacefully they go down to the grave.
- LXXE
- And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.
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- Written (Ketiv): יְבַלּוּ (“they wear out”). Read aloud (Qere): יְכַלּ֣וּ (“they complete”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads יְבַלּ֣וּ; read aloud (Qere) reads יְכַלּ֣וּ (“they complete”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- יבלו בַטּ֣וֹב יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וּ֝בְרֶ֗גַע שְׁא֣וֹל יֵחָֽתּוּ׃Read aloud as (qere): יְכַלּ֣וּ
- LXX-Br
- Συνετέλεσαν δὲ ἐν ἀγαθοῖς τὸν βίον αὐτῶν, ἐν δὲ ἀναπαύσει ᾅδου ἐκοιμήθησαν.
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
PleasureDeath of the Wicked, TheAmusements and Pleasures, WorldlyAmusements and Worldly PleasuresRich, TheHappiness of the Wicked, TheHappinessWorldlinessHellBlasphemy
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Job 36:11If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
- Psalms 73:4They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.
- Luke 12:19–20Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who…
- Luke 17:28–29It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- Matthew 24:38–39For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it…
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