Job 21:21
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For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
In other translations
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
- Ecclesiastes 2:18-1918 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. 19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.18 I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. 19 And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
- Job 14:21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.
- Psalm 102:24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.
- Luke 16:27-2827 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: 28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.27 ‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.’
- Psalm 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
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