Job 21:13
Good News Translation
They live out their lives in peace and quietly die without suffering.

New Revised Standard Version
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

Contemporary English Version
and they are successful, without a worry, until the day they die.

New American Bible
They live out their days in prosperity, and tranquilly go down to Sheol.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.

They

Job 36:11 If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.

Psalm 73:4 For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.

Matthew 24:38,39 For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark: . . .

Luke 12:19,20 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. . . .

Luke 17:28,29 Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built. . . .

wealth.

Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
12They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.14Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.…
Cross References
Judges 20:34
And to march from the west side of the city. And other ten thousand men chosen out of all Israel, attacked the inhabitants of the city. And the battle grew hot against the children of Benjamin: and they understood not that present death threatened them on every side.

Job 3:13
For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

Job 21:12
They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Job 21:23
One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.

Job 22:16
Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

Job 24:19
Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell.

Job 36:11
If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Job 21:12
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