Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] clods of [the] valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and {before} him {they are innumerable}.
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.
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.
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 brought to [the] grave, then someone stands guard over [the] tomb. 33 [The] clods of [the] valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and {before} him {they are innumerable}. 34 So how will you comfort me [with] emptiness, when fraud is left [in] your answers?"
Cross References
Job 30:23
Indeed, I know [that] you will bring me to death and [to the] house of assembly for all [the] living.
Hebrews 9:27
And {just as} it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment,
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until your 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 [the] wicked cease from troubling, and there [the] {weary} are at rest;
Job 3:22
who rejoice {exceedingly}, [and] they are glad when they find [the] grave?
Job 17:16
Will they go down [to] the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"
Job 24:24
They are exalted a little while, then {they are gone}. And they are brought low; they are cut off like all [others], and like [the] heads of grain they wither away.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth stands forever.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind, so also no one can control the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not deliver the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.