Job 21:33
The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
32He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
34So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
Cross References
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
Job 17:16Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
Job 30:23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Hebrews 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face 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 →