Job 21:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 36:11 : 11 If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.
  • Ps 73:4 : 4 For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.
  • Matt 24:38-39 : 38 Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark, 39 And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.
  • Luke 12:19-20 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
  • Luke 17:28-29 : 28 In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building; 29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.

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  • Job 4:20-21
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    20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

    21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

  • 12 They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.

  • 20 Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

  • 26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • 19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

  • 24 For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

  • 15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • 33 So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    13 And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

    14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

  • Ps 49:10-14
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    10 For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

    11 The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

    12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

    13 This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)

    14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

  • Job 3:21-22
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    21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

    22 Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

    11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • 21 A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

  • Ps 73:4-5
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    4 For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

    5 They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.

  • 12 Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

  • 14 They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

  • 6 Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

  • 14 Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

  • 6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • 4 Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

  • 18 The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

  • 23 One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:

  • 21 For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

  • 17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • 17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

  • 12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

  • 16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

  • 14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

  • 7 Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?

  • 13 How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

  • 18 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • 21 His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

  • 4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • 11 If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.

  • 19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • 21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

  • 19 He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

  • 28 The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

  • 29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

  • 2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.