Job 21:33
He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
32He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.
34How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth ?
Cross References
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.
Job 17:16All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?
Job 30:23I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.
Ecclesiastes 8:8It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.
Hebrews 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:
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 →