Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
BSB
ASV
They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.
KJV
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
They spend their days in wealth,.... Or "in good" (p); not in the performance of good works, or in the exercise of that which is spiritually good; or in seeking after spiritual good things, or eternal happiness; but in earthly good, in the enjoyment of the temporal good things of this life, and which to enjoy in a moderate and becoming manner is not criminal, but commendable; but these men, and such as they, seek no other good but worldly good; their language is, "who will show us any good?"
They spend their days in wealth - Margin, or, “mirth.” Literally, “they wear out their days in good” - בטוב baṭôb. Vulgate “in bonis.” Septuagint, ἐν ἀγαθοῖς en agathois - “in good things;” in the enjoyment of good. They are not oppressed with the evils of poverty and want, but they have abundance of “the good things” of life. And in a moment go down to the grave - Hebrew to שׁאול she'ôl - but here meaning evidently the grave.
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Job 36:11If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
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but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that…
So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
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Psalms 73:4They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.
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One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they…
One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.