Job 21:33

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

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 17:16

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

Job 21:32

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

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 3:22

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

Job 30:23

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

Ecclesiastes 1:4

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

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.

Hebrews 9:27

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