Job 21:33 BSB — MannaFest

Job 21:33

The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

BSB

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ASV

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

KJV

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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Commentary

1 voice

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XV

Ver. 33. He was sweet to the pebbles of Cocytus. 71. 'Cocytus' in the Greek tongue is the term for 'lamentation,' which is used to be taken for the lamentation of women, or any persons going weakly. Now the wise of this world being shut out from the light of truth, endeavoured by making search to hold a kind of shadows of truth. Hence they thought that the river Cocytus ran amongst the dead below, clearly denoting that they that commit deeds worthy of painful inflictions, run to an end into hell unto lamentation.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He shall remain in the tomb with a Hic jacet--Here lies, over him, and a large encomium. Perhaps it is meant of the embalming of his body to preserve it, which was a piece of honour anciently done by the Egyptians to their great men. He shall watch in the tomb (so the word is), shall abide solitary and quiet there, as a watchman in his tower.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him - That is, he shall lie as calmly as others in the grave. The language here is taken from that delusion of which we all partake when we reflect on death. We think of “ourselves” in the grave, and it is almost impossible to divest our minds of the idea, that we shall be conscious there, and be capable of understanding our condition.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

As the classic saying has it, "The earth is light upon him." His repose shall be "sweet." draw--follow. He shall share the common lot of mortals; no worse off than they (Heb 9:27). UMBREIT not so well (for it is not true of "every man").

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
מָֽתְקוּ־	ma.te.ku-	they will be sweet	H4985 →
ל֗וֹ	lo	to <the> him
רִגְבֵ֫י	rig.Vei	[the] clods of	H7263 →
נָ֥חַל	Na.chal	[the] wadi	H5158 →
וְ֭אַחֲרָיו	Ve.'a.cha.rav	and after him	H310 →
כָּל־	kol-	every	H3605 →
אָדָ֣ם	'a.Dam	person	H120 →
יִמְשׁ֑וֹךְ	yim.Shokh	he will follow	H4900 →
וּ֝לְפָנָ֗יו	u.le.fa.Nav	and <to> before him	H6440 →
אֵ֣ין	'ein	there not	H369 →
מִסְפָּֽר׃	mis.Par	[is] number	H4557 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 9:27
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
  before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Corinthians 5:10
  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14
  For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
- Acts 17:31
  For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
- 2 Samuel 14:14
  For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one…
Through
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
leads to
- Job 34:15
  all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
- Psalms 104:29
  When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Genesis 2:7
  Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job