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11 They release their children to play like sheep;
    their young ones[a] dance about,
12 singing[b] with tambourines and lyres
    as they rejoice to the sound of flutes.
13 They grow old[c] in prosperity,
    as they descend peacefully into the afterlife.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:11 Or children
  2. Job 21:12 Lit. they take up
  3. Job 21:13 Lit. wear out their days
  4. Job 21:13 Lit. Sheol; i.e. the abode of the dead