Job 21:24

²⁴ well nourished in body,[1]bones rich with marrow.

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Other Translations of Job 21:24

King James Version

²⁴ His breasts breasts: or, milk pails are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

English Standard Version

²⁴ his pailsThe meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.

The Message

²⁴ fat and sassy.

New King James Version

²⁴ His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moist.

New Living Translation

²⁴ the picture of good health, vigorous and fit.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 21:24

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.