33 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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33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.
33 Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.
33 The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.
33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.
33 The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
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Commentary on Job 21 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 21
This is Job's reply to Zophar's discourse, in which he complains less of his own miseries than he had done in his former discourses (finding that his friends were not moved by his complaints to pity him in the least), and comes closer to the general question that was in dispute between him and them, Whether outward prosperity, and the continuance of it, were a mark of the true church and the true members of it, so that the ruin of a man's prosperity is sufficient to prove him a hypocrite, though no other evidence appear against him: this they asserted, but Job denied.
Job 21:1-6
Job here recommends himself, both his case and his discourse, both what he suffered and what he said, to the compassionate consideration of his friends.
Job 21:7-16
All Job's three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. "It is true,' says Job, "remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always; for we have many instances of the great and long prosperity of those that are openly and avowedly wicked; though they are hardened in their wickedness by their prosperity, yet they are still suffered to prosper.'
Job 21:17-26
Job had largely described the prosperity of wicked people; now, in these verses,
Job 21:27-34
In these verses,