Job 21:33 Parallel Translations

The soil in the creekbed is sweet to him. Everyone follows him. Countless others went before him.(GOD'S WORD®)

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

ASV:

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

BBE:

The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

DBY:

The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.

ERV:

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

JPS:

The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

WBS:

The clods of the valley will be sweet to him, and every man will draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

WEB:

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

YLT:

Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.

Job 21:33 Cross References

XREF:

Job 3:19 "The small and the great are there, And the slave is free from his master.

Job 3:22 Who rejoice greatly, And exult when they find the grave?

Job 17:16 "Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?"

Job 24:24 "They are exalted a little while, then they are gone; Moreover, they are brought low and like everything gathered up; Even like the heads of grain they are cut off. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

21:33 The {t} clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him.
(t) He will be glad to lie in a slimy pit, who before could not be content with a royal palace.

WES:

21:33 Valley - Of the grave, which is low and deep like a valley. Sweet - He shall sweetly rest in his grave. Draw - Heb. he shall draw every man after him, into the grave, all that live after him, whether good or bad, shall follow him to the grave, shall die as he did. So he fares no worse herein than all mankind. He is figuratively said to draw them, because they come after him, as if they were drawn by his example.

MHC:

21:27-34 Job opposes the opinion of his friends, That the wicked are sure to fall into visible and remarkable ruin, and none but the wicked; upon which principle they condemned Job as wicked. Turn to whom you will, you will find that the punishment of sinners is designed more for the other world than for this, Jude 1:14,15. The sinner is here supposed to live in a great deal of power. The sinner shall have a splendid funeral: a poor thing for any man to be proud of the prospect of. He shall have a stately monument. And a valley with springs of water to keep the turf green, was accounted an honourable burial place among eastern people; but such things are vain distinctions. Death closes his prosperity. It is but a poor encouragement to die, that others have died before us. That which makes a man die with true courage, is, with faith to remember that Jesus Christ died and was laid in the grave, not only before us, but for us. That He hath gone before us, and died for us, who is alive and liveth for us, is true consolation in the hour of death.

CONC:

Bones Clods Countless Cover Covering Draw Draweth Follow Followeth Gently Goes Innumerable Moreover Numbering Ones Suit Sweet Throng Unnumbered Valley

Bones Clods Countless Cover Covering Draw Draweth Earth Follow Followeth Gently Innumerable Moreover Numbering Ones Soil Suit Sweet Throng Unnumbered Valley

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