Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

“The clods of the valley will gently cover him;
Moreover, all men will follow after him,
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

The dirt on his grave is sweet to him.
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.

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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The clods
רגב 
Regeb 
Usage: 2

of the valley
נחלה נחלה נחל 
Nachal 
Usage: 141

מתק 
Mathaq 
Usage: 5

unto him, and every man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

משׁך 
Mashak 
Usage: 36

אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

32 He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it. 33 The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him. 34 Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?



Cross References

Job 30:23

For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

Hebrews 9:27

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

Genesis 3:19

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Job 3:17-19

There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

Job 3:22

Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

Job 17:16

Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

Job 24:24

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

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