Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“They spend their days in prosperity,
And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

King James Version

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Holman Bible

They spend their days in prosperity
and go down to Sheol in peace.

International Standard Version

They grow old in prosperity, as they descend peacefully into the afterlife.

A Conservative Version

They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.

American Standard Version

They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

Amplified


“They fully enjoy their days in prosperity,
And so go down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) in a [peaceful] moment.

Bible in Basic English

Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

Darby Translation

They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.

Julia Smith Translation

Their days glided on in good, and in a moment they will lay hold of hades.

King James 2000

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

Modern King James verseion

They spend their days in good, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They spend their days in wealthiness: but suddenly, they go down to hell.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

They complete, in prosperity, their days, and, in a moment to hades, they sink down.

Webster

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

and in a moment
רגע 
Rega` 
Usage: 22

References

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

12 They jump at the sound of the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 13 “They spend their days in prosperity,
And suddenly they go down to Sheol.
14 Therefore, they say unto God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

Cross References

Job 36:11

If they hearken and serve him, they shall spend their days in goodness and their years in delight.

Psalm 73:4

Because there is no restraint that would bring about their death, but their strength is firm.

Matthew 24:38-39

For as they were in the days before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,

Luke 12:19-20

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

Luke 17:28-29

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

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