13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
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If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. …
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, …
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-16)All Job’s three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. “It is true,” says Job, “remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always; for we have many instances of the great and long prosperity of those that are openly and avowedly wicked; though they are hardened in their wickedness…
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