Job 21:25 Explained in Context

Selected verse

Verse 25. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

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Role in This Section

Job 21:25 advances the thought unit with the words “And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.” Job develops the next stated step through “And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure” as part of Job Questions How Often Immediate Judgment Appears.

Read It With

Job 21:17–21:26

Read Job 21:25 with 21:17–21:26. Read alone, “And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job asks how often the wicked are extinguished, rejects easy transfer of punishment to children, and notes that prosperous and bitter lives alike end in dust.

Why It Needs Context

Job 21:25 depends on 21:17–21:26; isolating “And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Questions How Often Immediate Judgment Appears.”

Read Job 21:17–26 together

Why these verses belong together: Job 21:17–21:26 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Questions How Often Immediate Judgment Appears.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.

Verse 17. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

Verse 18. They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Verse 19. God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

Verse 20. His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Verse 21. For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

Verse 22. Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

Verse 23. One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

Verse 24. His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

Verse 25. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

Verse 26. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

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