Job 21:33 Meaning and Explanation
“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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Read Full Chapter →Job pictures the wicked man resting peacefully in the earth while countless others follow him to the same end.
What Does Job 21:33 Mean?
Job completes the portrait with an image of strange repose. The very soil of the valley lies sweet upon the buried man, and a great procession follows him to death, as countless others have gone before. He is neither alone nor disgraced in dying.
Job presses the point: death comes to all, and the wicked join the universal march to the grave with apparent ease, gathered to the innumerable dead. But that same vast company before and after him testifies that no one escapes the appointment of death, and that beyond it stands the Judge of all. The sweetness of the clods is only for a season; what endures is the verdict of God upon the life that lived above them.
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What does Job 21:33 mean?
Job pictures the wicked man resting peacefully in the earth while countless others follow him to the same end.