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33 the clods of dirt from the streambed are sweet to him.
Everyone follows his funeral procession.
A crowd of people marches ahead of it.[a]

34 So how can you comfort me with your useless words?
There is nothing left from your answers but fraud!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:33 This can also be understood as a statement that every person either precedes or follows this man in death.

33 The soil in the valley is sweet to them;(A)
    everyone follows after them,
    and a countless throng goes[a] before them.(B)

34 “So how can you console me(C) with your nonsense?
    Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:33 Or them, / as a countless throng went