Job 21:33
The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
32For he is borne to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
34How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?
Cross References
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
Job 17:16They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust.
Job 30:23For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man that hath power over the wind to retain the wind; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.
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 →