Job 21:33
Sweet are to him the clods of the valley; and after him succeedeth every man, as those that were before him are without number.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
32Yea he will indeed be carried to the grave, and men will quickly think of his monument:
34How then will ye comfort me with vanity? and of your answers there remaineth only deception.
Cross References
Job 3:17There [where] the wicked cease from troubling; and where the exhausted weary are at rest;
Job 17:16Let then my limbs sink down to the nether world: truly in the dust alone there is rest for all.
Job 30:23For I know that thou wilt bring me back to death, and to the house of assembly for all the living.
Ecclesiastes 8:8No man hath control over the spirit to detain the spirit; and there is no control over the day of death; and there is no representation in that war; and wickedness will not deliver those that practise 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 →