Job 21:13

World English Bible (2000)

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 36:11 : 11 If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
  • Ps 73:4 : 4 For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.
  • Matt 24:38-39 : 38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, 39 and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Luke 12:19-20 : 19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."' 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
  • Luke 17:28-29 : 28 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

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