¹³ Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

¹¹ If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.

⁴ For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

³⁸ Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,

³⁹ And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

²⁸ In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;

²⁹ But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.