Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 Yet shall he be brought to his grave, and dwell among the heap of the dead. 33 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. 34 How vain, then, is the comfort that ye give me? Are not your answers clean contrary to right and truth?"
Cross References
Job 30:23
Sure I am, that thou wilt deliver me unto death: whereas a lodging is prepared for all men living.
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men that they shall once die, and then cometh the judgment,
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return unto the earth whence thou wast taken: for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return."
Job 3:17-19
There, must the wicked cease from their tyranny, there such as are overlaboured be at rest.
Job 3:22
and search for it more than for treasure. Which also would be exceedingly glad, and rejoice if they found their grave.
Job 17:16
All that I have, shall go down into the pit, and lie with me in the dust."
Job 24:24
They are exalted for a little, but shortly are they gone, brought to extreme poverty, and taken out of the way: yea, and utterly plucked off, as the ears of corn.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation passeth away, another cometh, but the earth abideth still.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Neither is there any man that hath power over the spirit, to keep still the spirit, nor to have any power in the time of death: it is not he also that can make an end of the battle, neither may ungodliness deliver him that meddleth withall.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.