Job Chapter 21 verse 33 Holy Bible
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.
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The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.
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The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.
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The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
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The clods of the valley will be sweet to him, and every man will draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
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The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.
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Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 33. - The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him. In his mausoleum, by the side of the running stream, the very clods of the valley, wherein his tomb is placed, shall be sweet and pleasant to him - death thus losing half its terrors. And all men shall draw after him. Some explain this of the lengthy funeral procession which follows his corpse to the grave, and take the next clause of the multitude, not forming part of the procession, who gather together at the tomb beforehand, waiting to see the obsequies; but, as Rosenmuller remarks, this explanation seems precluded by the previous mention of the funeral procession (ver 32), besides being otherwise unsatisfactory. The real reference is probably to the common topic of consolation implied in the "Omnes eodem cogimur" of Horace. He is happy in his death, or at any rate not unhappy, seeing that he only suffers the common fate. He will draw after him all future men, who will likewise inevitably perish, just as there are innumerable before him, who have travelled the same read and reached the same resting-place.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(33) The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him.--Death is robbed of its repulsiveness and horror, seeing that all will be glad to join in his funeral procession, and after him all men will draw (in endless procession), and before him they will be without number.
