Job 21:33

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 30:23 : 23 I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,
  • Eccl 1:4 : 4 A generation comes and a generation goes, but the earth remains the same through the ages.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • Job 3:17-19 : 17 There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest. 18 There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. 19 Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
  • Job 3:22 : 22 who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
  • Job 17:16 : 16 Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
  • Job 24:24 : 24 They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’

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  • Job 21:31-32
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    31 No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

    32 And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

  • Job 33:21-22
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    21 His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

    22 He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

  • Job 21:23-26
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    23 Death Levels Everything“One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,

    24 his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

    25 And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

    26 Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

  • 11 His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

  • 34 So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”

  • 21 For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

  • 2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • 19 Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.

  • 15 all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

  • Job 20:7-8
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    7 he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’

    8 Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

  • Job 3:21-22
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    21 to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,

    22 who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?

  • Job 27:15-16
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    15 Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.

    16 If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

  • 20 People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

  • 21 “Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

  • 19 He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

  • 28 he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

  • Job 14:21-22
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    21 If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.

    22 His flesh only has pain for him, and he mourns for himself.”

  • 20 Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.

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    13 On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals will walk on its branches.

    14 For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; they will be among mere mortals, with those who descend to the Pit.

  • 21 For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

  • 5 and they are afraid of heights and the dangers in the street; the almond blossoms grow white, and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry shrivels up– because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets–

  • 13 They experience his favor; their descendants inherit the land.

  • 17 His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9 As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

    10 He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • 20 The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

  • 23 God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

  • 21 It paws the ground in the valley, exulting mightily, it goes out to meet the weapons.

  • 22 The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.

  • 16 Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

  • 6 They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

  • 25 then his flesh is restored like a youth’s; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.

  • 16 The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

  • 19 Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,

  • 7 As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  • 21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

  • 24 The Contrast With the Past“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

  • 17 It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

  • 22 Tell your daughters and neighbors,‘The LORD says,“The dead bodies of people will lie scattered everywhere like manure scattered on a field. They will lie scattered on the ground like grain that has been cut down but has not been gathered.”’”

  • 9 at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.