Parallel Verses
Amplified
“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.
New American Standard Bible
Moreover,
While countless ones go before him.
King James Version
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
Holman Bible
Everyone follows behind him,
and those who go before him are without number.
International Standard Version
The runoff from the streams will seem sweet to him; everyone will follow after him; countless crows march ahead of him.
A Conservative Version
The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. And all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
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.
Bible in Basic English
The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.
Darby Translation
The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.
Julia Smith Translation
And the clods of the valley were sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, and before him no number.
King James 2000
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall follow after him, as there are innumerable gone before him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] clods of [the] valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and {before} him {they are innumerable}.
Modern King James verseion
And the clods of the valley shall be sweet to him and every man shall draw after him, as there is no numbering of those before him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then shall he be fain to be buried among the stones by the brookside. All men must follow him, and there are innumerable gone before him.
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Pleasant to him are the mounds of the torrent-bed, - and, after him, doth every man march, as, before him, there were without number.
Webster
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 shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
Youngs 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.
Interlinear
Mashak
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 21:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar
32
“When he is carried to his grave,
A guard will keep watch over his tomb.
“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.
“How then can you vainly comfort me with empty words,
Since your answers remain untrue?”
Cross References
Job 30:23
“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living.
Hebrews 9:27
And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment,
Genesis 3:19
“By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread
Until you return to the ground,
For from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”
Job 3:17-19
“There [in death] the wicked cease from raging,
And there the weary are at rest.
Job 3:22
Who rejoice exceedingly,
And rejoice when they find the grave?
Job 17:16
“Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)?
Shall we go down together in the dust?”
Job 24:24
“They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone;
Moreover, they are brought low and like everything [they are] gathered up and taken out of the way;
Even like the heads of grain they are cut off.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation goes and another generation comes,
But the earth remains forever.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man who has power and authority over the wind to restrain the wind,
Nor does he have authority over the day of death;
There is no discharge [from service] during time of war,
And evil will not rescue those who [actively seek to] practice it.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
then the dust [out of which God made man’s body] will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.