Job 21:21 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

How can he be interested in his family after he's gone, when the number of his months is cut short?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

ASV:

For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

BBE:

For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

DBY:

For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

ERV:

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

JPS:

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him? seeing the number of his months is determined.

WBS:

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

WEB:

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

YLT:

For what is his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?

Job 21:21 Cross References

XREF:

Job 21:20 "Let his own eyes see his decay, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 21:22 "Can anyone teach God knowledge, In that He judges those on high? (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

21:21 For, and c. - What delight can ye take in the thoughts of his posterity, when he is dying an untimely death? When that number of months, which by the course of nature, he might have lived, is cut off by violence.

MHC:

21:17-26 Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness and justice of God. Even while they prosper thus, they are light and worthless, of no account with God, or with wise men. In the height of their pomp and power, there is but a step between them and ruin. Job refers the difference Providence makes between one wicked man and another, into the wisdom of God. He is Judge of all the earth, and he will do right. So vast is the disproportion between time and eternity, that if hell be the lot of every sinner at last, it makes little difference if one goes singing thither, and another sighing. If one wicked man die in a palace, and another in a dungeon, the worm that dies not, and the fire that is not quenched, will be the same to them. Thus differences in this world are not worth perplexing ourselves about.

CONC:

Allotted Behind Care Careth Cut Delight Determined Ended Family Household Houses Interest Leaves Midst Months Pleasure Seeing

Allotted Care Careth Cut Delight Determined End Ended Family House Household Houses Interest Leaves Midst Months Pleasure

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