Job 21:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

*יבלו **יְכַלּ֣וּ בַטּ֣וֹב יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וּ֝בְרֶ֗גַע שְׁא֣וֹל יֵחָֽתּוּ׃

Transliteration

yəkallû baṭṭôb yəmêhem û-bəregaʿ šəʾôl yēḥāttû

Grammar Details

*yəkallû*: Piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural (Ketiv: *yiblû*) - they spend/complete
*baṭṭôb*: preposition + definite article + noun masculine singular - in the good/prosperity
*yəmêhem*: noun masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their days
*û-bəregaʿ*: conjunctive waw + preposition + noun masculine singular - and in a moment
*šəʾôl*: noun feminine singular - Sheol/underworld
*yēḥāttû*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they descend/go down

Word Meanings

*kālâ*: to complete/finish/spend (Ketiv: *bālâ* - to wear out/consume)
*ṭôb*: good/pleasant/agreeable
*yôm*: day/time
*regaʿ*: moment/instant
*šəʾôl*: underworld/grave/death
*ḥātat*: to be broken/dismayed/go down

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 36:11 : 11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Ps 73:4 : 4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
Matt 24:38-39 : 38 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, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Luke 12:19-20 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
Luke 17:28-29 : 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

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