Job 21:33

Job chapter 21 · verse 33 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.32Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

v.33This passage

v.34How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 3:22

    Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?

  • Job 24:24

    They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

  • Job 17:16

    It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

  • Hebrews 9:27

    And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;

  • Job 30:23

    For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

  • Ecclesiastes 8:8

    There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.