Ayub 21:21

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Karena peduli apa ia dengan keluarganya sesudah ia mati, bila telah habis jumlah bulannya?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Karena peduli apa ia dengan keluarganya sesudah ia mati, bila telah habis jumlah bulannya?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena apakah ia peduli akan isi rumahnya yang kemudian dari padanya, setelah genaplah sudah segala bulan yang sudah ditentukan kepadanya?

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ How oft shall the candell of the wicked be put out, and their destruction come vpon them? O what sorowe shall God geue them for their part in his wrath? ¹⁸ Yea, they shalbe euen as hay before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away. ¹⁹ God wyll lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: & when he rewardeth him, he shall know it. ²⁰ Their owne miserie shal they see with their eyes, and drinke of the fearefull wrath of the almightie. ²¹ For what careth he for his house after his death, when the number of his monethes is cut short? ²² Seeing God hath the highest power of all, who can teache him any knowledge? ²³ One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie, ²⁴ His breastes are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe. ²⁵ Another dyeth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure. ²⁶ They shall sleepe both alyke in the earth, and the wormes shall couer them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For what: Job 14:21, Ecclesiastes 2:18, Ecclesiastes 2:19, Luke 16:27, Luke 16:28

the number: Job 14:5, Psalms 55:23, Psalms 102:24

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 21:7 - General Psalms 17:14 - leave Psalms 102:23 - shortened Romans 5:1 - we have

Cross-References

Genesis 21:3
And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, whiche Sara bare hym, Isahac.

Genesis 21:4
And Abraham circumcised his sonne Isahac, when he was eyght dayes olde, as God commaunded him.

Genesis 21:34
And Abraham soiourned in the Philistines lande a long season.

Numbers 10:12
And the children of Israel toke their iourney out of the desert of Sinai, and the cloude rested in the wildernesse of Pharan.

Numbers 12:16
And afterwarde the people remoued from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wyldernesse of Pharan.

Numbers 13:3
And Moyses at the commaundement of the Lorde, sent foorth out of the wyldernesse of Pharan, suche men as were all heades of the chyldren of Israel.

Numbers 13:26
And they went, and came to Moyses and Aaron, and vnto all the multitude of the chyldren of Israel in the wyldernesse Pharan to Cades, and brought them worde, and also vnto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruite of the lande.

Judges 14:2
And he came vp, and told his father and his mother, & said: I haue sene a woman in Thamnath of the daughters of the Philistines: & nowe geue me her to wyfe.

1 Samuel 25:1
And Samuel died, and all the Israelites gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his owne house at Rama. And Dauid arose, & went downe to the wildernesse of Pharan.

1 Corinthians 7:38
So then he that ioyneth his virgin in maryage, doth well: but he that ioyneth not [his virgin] in mariage, doth better.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him,.... As, on the one hand, the prosperity of his children after his decease gives him no pleasure and delight, so, on the other hand, the calamities and distresses of his family for his sins and theirs give him no pain or uneasiness; he knows nothing that befalls them, and it is no part of his concern; and let what will befall them, he cares not for it; he feels it not, he is not sensible of it; and therefore to object that signifies nothing; see Job 14:21; or, "what business has he with his house after death?" the affairs d of his family do not at all concern him, one way or another; he is not affected with them; he can neither consider their happiness as a blessing nor their calamities as a punishment to him:

when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? the years, the months, and the days of the lives of men, are numbered and determined by the Lord, Job 14:5; which, when finished, the thread of life is cut off in the midst, from the rest of the months, which a man or his friends might have expected he would have lived; or rather, "when his number of the months is fully up" e; when the calculation of them is complete, and the full number of them is perfected; the sense is, what cares a wicked man for what befalls his family after his death, when he has lived out the full term of life in great outward happiness and prosperity; has lived to be full of days, of months, and years, to a full age, even to an age that may be truly called old age?

d So Schultens. e חצצו "integro numero calculis ducti sunt", Cocceius; "cumulatam sortem habuerint", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For what pleasure hath he ... - That is, what happiness shall he have in his family? This, it seems to me, is designed to be a reference to their sentiments, or a statement by Job of what “they” maintained. They held, that a man who was wicked, could have none of the comfort which he anticipated in his children, for he would himself be cut off in the midst of life, and taken away.

When the number of his months is cut off in the midst? - When his “life” is cut off - the word “months” here being used in the sense of “life,” or “years.” This they had maintained, that a wicked man would be punished, by being cut off in the midst of his way; compare Job 14:21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 21:21. For what pleasure hath he in his house after him — What may happen to his posterity he neither knows nor cares for, as he is now numbered with the dead, and numbered with them before he had lived out half his years. Some have translated the verse thus: "Behold how speedily God destroys the house of the wicked after him! How he shortens the number of his months!"