21 For what do they care about the families they leave behind when their allotted months come to an end?
21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
21 For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
21 What do they care what happens to their families after they're safely tucked away in the grave? Fancy Funerals with All the Trimmings
21 For what does he care about his household after him, When the number of his months is cut in half?
21 For they will not care what happens to their family after they are dead.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 21:21
Commentary on Job 21:17-26
(Read Job 21:17-26)
Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness and justice of God. Even while they prosper thus, they are light and worthless, of no account with God, or with wise men. In the height of their pomp and power, there is but a step between them and ruin. Job refers the difference Providence makes between one wicked man and another, into the wisdom of God. He is Judge of all the earth, and he will do right. So vast is the disproportion between time and eternity, that if hell be the lot of every sinner at last, it makes little difference if one goes singing thither, and another sighing. If one wicked man die in a palace, and another in a dungeon, the worm that dies not, and the fire that is not quenched, will be the same to them. Thus differences in this world are not worth perplexing ourselves about.