Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
The runoff from the streams will seem sweet to him; everyone will follow after him; countless crows march ahead of 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.
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.
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.
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 away to the cemetery and guardians are placed to watch his tomb? 33 The runoff from the streams will seem sweet to him; everyone will follow after him; countless crows march ahead of him. 34 How then, can you console me so worthlessly? What is left of your answers is treachery."
Cross References
Job 30:23
I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."
Hebrews 9:27
Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,
Genesis 3:19
You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you're buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You're made from dust and you'll return to dust."
Job 3:17-19
In that place, the wicked stop causing trouble, and there, those whose strength is exhausted are at rest.
Job 3:22
To those who are happy beyond measure when they reach their graves?
Job 17:16
Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?"
Job 24:24
They're exalted momentarily, but then they are gone; they are humbled, just like all the others. They are cut down like heads of corn.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
A generation goes, a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
then man's dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.