Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 And he shall be led away to the graves, and shall watch over the tomb. 33 And the clods of the valley were sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, and before him no number. 34 And how will ye comfort me in vain, and your answers remained treachery?
Cross References
Job 30:23
For I knew thou wilt turn me back to death, and the house appointed to all living.
Hebrews 9:27
And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment:
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.
Job 3:17-19
There the unjust ceased to be angry, and the weary in strength shall rest.
Job 3:22
Rejoicing with joy when they find the grave;
Job 17:16
They shall go down to the bars of hades if together we shall go down to the dust.
Job 24:24
They were lifted up a little while, and they are not, and they were brought low; as all they will be drawn together, and as the head of an ear of grain they shall be cut off.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
A generation went away, and a generation came: and the earth stood forever.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
No man having power in spirit to restrain the spirit: and no power in the day of death: and no sending forth in war; and injustice shall not deliver its possessors.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.