In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Job 21:33 - Revised Standard Version The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all men follow after him, and those who go before him are innumerable. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 The soil near the desert streambed is sweet to them; everyone marches after them— those before them, beyond counting. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus. And he shall draw every man after him; and there are innumerable before him. |
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”
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.
Yea, I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
No man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,