Job 21:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 36:11 : 11 If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.
  • Ps 73:4 : 4 For they suffer no pain; their bodies are strong and well-fed.
  • Matt 24:38-39 : 38 For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. 39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Luke 12:19-20 : 19 And I will say to myself,“You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’ 20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
  • Luke 17:28-29 : 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; 29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

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