Job 21:33 · KJV
“The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as {there are} innumerable before him.”
— Job 21:33
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. {grave: Heb. graves} {remain...: Heb. watch in the heap}
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? {falsehood: Heb. transgression?}
Job 21 — Context
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him {what} he hath done?
32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. {grave: Heb. graves} {remain...: Heb. watch in the heap}
33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as {there are} innumerable before him.
34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? {falsehood: Heb. transgression?}
Cross References
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Job 24:24
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all {other}, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. {are gone: Heb. are not} {taken...: Heb. closed up}
Job 30:23
For I know {that} thou wilt bring me {to} death, and {to} the house appointed for all living.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
{One} generation passeth away, and {another} generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Job 3:22
Which rejoice exceedingly, {and} are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 17:16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when {our} rest together {is} in the dust.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
{There is} no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither {hath he} power in the day of death: and {there is} no discharge in {that} war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. {discharge: or, casting off weapons}