Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
They spend their days in wealth - There is a various reading here of some importance. In the text we have yeballu , they grow old, or wear out as with old age, terent vetustate; and in the margin, yechallu , they consume; and the Masora states that this is one of the eleven words which are written with beth and must be read with caph . Several editions have the former word in the text, and the latter in the margin; the former being what is called the kethib, the latter keri. yeballu , they grow old, or wear out, is the reading of the Antwerp, Paris, and London Polyglots; yechallu , they accomplish or spend, is the reading of the Complutensian Polyglot, thirteen of Kennicott' s and De Rossi' s MSS., the Septuagint, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic. The Vulgate has ducunt, "they lead or spend," from which our translation is borrowed. I incline to the former, as Job' s argument derives considerable strength from this circumstance; they not only spend their days in faring sumptuously every day; but they even wear out so as to grow old in it; they are not cut off by any sudden judgment of God. This is fact; therefore your doctrine, that the wicked are cut off suddenly and have but a short time, is far from the truth.
In a moment go down to the grave - They wear out their years in pleasure; grow old in their gay and giddy life; and die, as in a moment, without previous sickness; or, as Mr. Good has it, They quietly descend into the grave.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Job 21:13:
Job 24:1
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