Job 21:33 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³³ The clods of the valley are sweet to them; everyone will follow after, and those who went before are innumerable.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³³ The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And every man shall draw after him, As there are innumerable before him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³³ The clods of the valley are sweet to him, and every man shall follow him to a grave, as innumerable people [have gone] before him.

American Standard Version (1901)

³³ The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

Common English Bible

³³ The soil near the desert streambed is sweet to them; everyone marches after them— those before them, beyond counting.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³³ He has been found acceptable to the banks of the River of Lamentation, and he will draw any man towards him, and there are countless before him.

Job 21:33 Cross References

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,

Job 30:23

I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has power over the wind to restrain the wind or power over the day of death; there is no discharge from the battle, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

Job 24:24

They are exalted a little while and then are gone; they wither and fade like the mallow; they are cut off like the heads of grain.

Job 17:16

Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”

Job 3:22

who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Job 21:32

When they are carried to the grave, a watch is kept over their tomb.