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Job Chapter 21 verse 32 Holy Bible

ASV Job 21:32

Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.
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BBE Job 21:32

He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.
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DARBY Job 21:32

Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.
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KJV Job 21:32

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
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WBT Job 21:32

Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
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WEB Job 21:32

Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.
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YLT Job 21:32

And he -- to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 32. - Yet shall he be brought to the grave; rather, he moreover is borne (in pomp) to the grave. Even in death the advantage is still with the wicked man. He is borne in procession to the grave - a mausoleum or a family vault - by a long train of mourners, who weep and lament for him, and pay him funeral honours. The poor virtuous man, on the other hand, is hastily thrust under the soil. And shall remain in in the tomb; or shall keep watch over his tomb. The allusion is probably to the custom, common certainly in Egypt and Phoenicia, of carving a figure of the deceased on the lid of his sarcophagus, to keep as it were watch over the remains deposited within. The figure was sometimes accompanied by an inscription, denouncing curses on those who should dare to violate the tomb or disturb the remains (see 'Records of the Past,' vol. 9. pp. 112-114; and compare the author's 'History of Phoenicia,' pp. 393-395).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(32) And shall remain in the tomb.--The word rendered tomb is rendered shock of corn in Job 5:26, and is not found in the sense of tomb elsewhere. It is doubtful, therefore, whether this is its meaning here. The verse may mean: "He shall be borne to the grave, and men shall watch over his sheaves," i.e., his possessions; or "He shall be borne to the grave with as much deference as when he used to watch over his sheaves" (to protect them from robbery).