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Job 21:33

Job 21:33 is verse 33 of Job chapter 21, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

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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.

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.

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Job 21:31–34 · Berean Standard Bible

31 Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?

32 He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

34 So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 3:17

There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.

Job 3:18

The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

Job 30:23

Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

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 1:4

Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

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