Job 21:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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