Job 21:33
The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.
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32He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.
Cross References
Job 3:17There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
Job 17:16Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
Job 30:23For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
Ecclesiastes 8:8No 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.
Hebrews 9:27And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
Matthew Henry on Job 21:28-34
Punishment of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. 28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? 29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. 31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? 32 Yet shall he be… Read the whole commentary →