Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The soil in the valley is sweet to them; everyone follows after them, and a countless throng goes before them. New Living Translation A great funeral procession goes to the cemetery. Many pay their respects as the body is laid to rest, and the earth gives sweet repose. English Standard Version The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable. Berean Standard Bible The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number. King James Bible The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. New King James Version The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; Everyone shall follow him, As countless have gone before him. New American Standard Bible “The clods of the valley will gently cover him; Moreover, all mankind will follow after him, While countless others go before him. NASB 1995 “The clods of the valley will gently cover him; Moreover, all men will follow after him, While countless ones go before him. NASB 1977 “The clods of the valley will gently cover him; Moreover, all men will follow after him, While countless ones go before him. Legacy Standard Bible The clods of the valley will gently cover him; Moreover, all men will draw up after him, While countless ones go before him. Amplified Bible “The [dirt] clods of the valley are sweet to him [and gently cover him], Moreover, all men will follow after him [to a grave], While countless ones go before him. Christian Standard Bible The dirt on his grave is sweet to him. Everyone follows behind him, and those who go before him are without number. Holman Christian Standard Bible The dirt on his grave is sweet to him. Everyone follows behind him, and those who go before him are without number. American Standard Version The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him. Contemporary English Version the earth welcomes them home, while crowds mourn. English Revised Version The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him. GOD'S WORD® Translation The soil in the creekbed is sweet to him. Everyone follows him. Countless others went before him. Good News Translation thousands join the funeral procession, and even the earth lies gently on their bodies. International Standard Version The runoff from the streams will seem sweet to him; everyone will follow after him; countless crows march ahead of him. Majority Standard Bible The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number. NET Bible The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng. New Heart English Bible The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him. Webster's Bible Translation The clods of the valley will be sweet to him, and every man will draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. World English Bible The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThe clods of the valley have been sweet to him, "" And he draws every man after him, "" And there is no numbering before him. Young's Literal Translation Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering. Smith's Literal Translation And the clods of the valley were sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, and before him no number. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleHe hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him. 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. New American Bible Sweet to him are the clods of the valley. All humankind will follow after him, and countless others before him. New Revised Standard Version The clods of the valley are sweet to them; everyone will follow after, and those who went before are innumerable. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThe depths of the valley shall swallow him, and many shall be drawn in after him, even as there are innumerable ahead of him. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Deep caves of a torrent swallow him, and every person is dragged after him and before him without number OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, And all men draw after him, As there were innumerable before him. Brenton Septuagint Translation The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and there are innumerable ones before him. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job: God will Punish the Wicked…32He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb. 33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number. 34So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”… Cross References Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” Ecclesiastes 12:7 before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Psalm 90:3 You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.” Isaiah 26:19 Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead. Daniel 12:2 And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt. John 5:28-29 Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice / and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. 1 Corinthians 15:42-44 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable. / It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. / It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. Romans 8:11 And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you. Matthew 27:52-53 The tombs broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised. / After Jesus’ resurrection, when they had come out of the tombs, they entered the holy city and appeared to many people. Ezekiel 37:12-14 Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. / Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. / I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.’” Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes. Revelation 20:13 The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds. 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. / For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. Philippians 3:21 who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body. Treasury of Scripture The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. sweet Job 3:17,18 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest… every man Job 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Ecclesiastes 1:4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. Jump to Previous Bones Clods Countless Cover Covering Draw Draweth Earth Follow Followeth Gently Innumerable Moreover Numbering Ones Soil Suit Sweet Throng Unnumbered ValleyJump to Next Bones Clods Countless Cover Covering Draw Draweth Earth Follow Followeth Gently Innumerable Moreover Numbering Ones Soil Suit Sweet Throng Unnumbered ValleyJob 21 1. Job shows that even in the judgment of man he has reason to be grieved7. Sometimes the wicked prosper, though they despise God 16. Sometimes their destruction is manifest 21. The happy and unhappy are alike in death 27. The judgment of the wicked is in another world The clods of the valley This phrase evokes imagery of the earth and burial, as "clods" refer to lumps of soil. In the Hebrew context, the "valley" often symbolizes a place of rest or burial, as seen in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, a place associated with judgment and finality. The "clods of the valley" being "sweet" suggests a peaceful acceptance of death, a return to the earth from which man was formed (Genesis 2:7). This reflects a deep-seated belief in the natural cycle of life and death, where the earth, created by God, receives back what it has given. will be sweet to him everyone will follow after him and those before him will count him as countless Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The clodsרִגְבֵ֫י (riḡ·ḇê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 7263: A clod (of earth) of the valley נָ֥חַל (nā·ḥal) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft are sweet מָֽתְקוּ־ (mā·ṯə·qū-) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 4985: To become or be sweet or pleasant to him; ל֗וֹ (lōw) Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew everyone כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every follows יִמְשׁ֑וֹךְ (yim·šō·wḵ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 4900: To draw, drag behind him, וְ֭אַחֲרָיו (wə·’a·ḥă·rāw) Conjunctive waw | Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's 310: The hind or following part and those before him וּ֝לְפָנָ֗יו (ū·lə·p̄ā·nāw) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 6440: The face are without אֵ֣ין (’ên) Adverb Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle number. מִסְפָּֽר׃ (mis·pār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration Links Job 21:33 NIVJob 21:33 NLT Job 21:33 ESV Job 21:33 NASB Job 21:33 KJV Job 21:33 BibleApps.com Job 21:33 Biblia Paralela Job 21:33 Chinese Bible Job 21:33 French Bible Job 21:33 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 21:33 The clods of the valley shall be (Jb) |
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