Job 21:13

Bishops' Bible (1568)

They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue.

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  • Job 36:11 : 11 If they now wyll take heede & serue him, they shal weare out their dayes in prosperitie, and their yeres in pleasure.
  • Ps 73:4 : 4 For there be no bondes of death that can holde them: and the galaries of their houses be strong.
  • Matt 24:38-39 : 38 For as in the dayes that went before the fludde, they dyd eate, and drynke, marry, and geue in maryage, euen vntyll the day that Noe entred into the Arke: 39 And knewe not, tyll the fludde came, and toke them all away: So shall also the commyng of the sonne of man be.
  • Luke 12:19-20 : 19 And I wyll saye to my soule: Soule, thou hast much goods layed vp in store for many yeres, take thyne ease, eate, drynke, and be mery. 20 But God sayde vnto hym: Thou foole, this nyght wyll they fetch awaye thy soule againe fro thee: Then whose shall those thynges be, which thou hast prouided?
  • Luke 17:28-29 : 28 Lykewyse also as it was in the dayes of Lot: they dyd eate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they buylded: 29 But euen the same day that Lot went out of Sodome, it rayned fire and brimstone from heauen, and destroyed them all.

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  • Job 4:20-21
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    20They shalbe smitten from the morning vnto the euening: yea they shall perishe for euer, when no man regardeth them.

    21Is not their royaltie gone away with them? they shall dye truely, and not in wysdome.

  • 12They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs.

  • 20In the twinckling of an eye shall they dye, and at midnight when the people and the tirantes rage, then shall they perishe, & be taken away without handes.

  • 26They shall sleepe both alyke in the earth, and the wormes shall couer them.

  • 19When the riche man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers, they opened their eyes, and he was gone.

  • 24They are exalted for a litle, but shortly are gone, brought to pouertie, and taken out of the way, yea and vtterly pluckt of, as the eares of corne.

  • 15Let death sodainly come vpon them, let them go downe quicke into hell: for wickednes is in their dwellinges and among them.

  • 19Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread.

  • 33When he slue them, they sought hym: they repented them, and made God their morninges worke.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    13Yet is there a sore plague which I haue seene vnder the sunne namely riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession:

    14For oft tymes they perishe with his great miserie and trouble: and yf he haue a chylde, it getteth nothyng.

  • Ps 49:10-14
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    10For he seeth that wyse men dye: and that the foole and ignoraunt perishe together, and leaue their riches for other.

    11And yet they thynke that their houses shall continue for euer, and that their dwellyng places shall endure from one generation to another: therfore they call landes after their owne names.

    12Neuerthelesse, man can not abyde in such honour: he is but lyke vnto bruite beastes that perishe.

    13This their way is their foolishnesse: yet their posteritie prayse their saying. Selah.

    14They shalbe put into a graue dead as a sheepe, death shall feede on them: but the ryghteous shall haue dominion of them in the mornyng, their beautie shall consume away, hell shall receaue them from their house.

  • Job 3:21-22
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    21Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures:

    22Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue,

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10Agayne, the riche, in that he is made lowe: Because as the flowre of the grasse he shall passe away.

    11For the sunne hath rysen with heate, and the grasse hath withered, and his flowre hath fallen away, & the beautie of the fashion of it hath perished: So also shall the ryche man fade away in his wayes.

  • 21A feareful sounde is euer in his eares, and when he is in peace, the destroyer shall come vpon him.

  • Ps 73:4-5
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    4For there be no bondes of death that can holde them: and the galaries of their houses be strong.

    5They come in no misfortune lyke other folke: neither are they plagued lyke other men.

  • 12Lo these vngodly and fortunate in the worlde: do possesse riches.

  • 14Thus shal their soule perishe in foolishnes, and their lyfe among the fornicatours.

  • 6There be some that put their trust in their goodes: and boast them selues in the multitude of their riches.

  • 14They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.

  • 6Truely man walketh in a vayne shadowe, truely he and all his do disquiet them selues in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, & can not tel who shal vse them.

  • 4Riches helpe not in the day of vengeaunce: but ryghteousnesse deliuereth from death.

  • 18They depart from the course of their wonted chanell to other places, they runne in vayne and perishe.

  • 23One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie,

  • 21For what careth he for his house after his death, when the number of his monethes is cut short?

  • 17The morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death,

  • 17For he shall cary nothyng away with hym when he dyeth: neither shall his pompe folowe after hym.

  • 12Let vs swallowe them vp lyke the graue quicke and whole, as those that go downe into the pit:

  • 16These shall go downe with me into the pit, and lye with me in the dust.

  • 14Therfore gapeth hell and openeth her mouth marueilous wyde, that their glorie, multitude, and wealth, with such as reioyce in her, may descende into it.

  • 7Wherefore do wicked men liue, come to their olde age, and increase in richesse?

  • 13Go to nowe ye that say, to day and to morowe let vs go into such a citie, and continue there a yere, and bye and sell, and wynne:

  • 18Uayne is it and an erronious worke, and in the tyme of visitation it shall perishe.

  • 21And whether his children come to worship or no, he can not tell: And if they be men of lowe degree, he knoweth not.

  • 4Blessed is he vnto whom the God of Iacob is an ayde: his trust is in God his Lorde.

  • 11If they now wyll take heede & serue him, they shal weare out their dayes in prosperitie, and their yeres in pleasure.

  • 19Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedie of gayne, who taketh away the life of the owner therof.

  • 21So is he that gathereth riches to him selfe, and is not ryche towardes God.

  • 19But he shal folowe the generations of his fathers: and shall neuer see lyght.

  • 28The substaunce that he hath in his house, shalbe taken away and perishe in the day of the Lordes wrath.

  • 29He shall not be riche, neither shall his substaunce continue, neither shal the prosperitie thereof be prolonged vpon earth.

  • 2For they shall soone be cut downe like the grasse: and be withered euen as the greene hearbe.