By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”
Job 21:33 - Tree of Life Version The soil in the valley is sweet to him; everyone follows after him, and countless are those before him. 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. |
By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we descend together into the dust?”
They are exalted for a little while and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others, they are like heads of grain they wither.
For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all the living.
A generation comes, and a generation goes, but the earth remains forever.
Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, nor authority over the day of death. As no one is discharged during a battle, so wickedness cannot rescue its master.
And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this judgment,