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Job 21:32-34
New English Translation
Job 21:32-34
New English Translation
32 And when he is carried to the tombs,
and watch is kept[a] over the funeral mound,[b]
33 The clods of the torrent valley[c] are sweet to him;
behind him everybody follows in procession,
and before him goes a countless throng.
34 So how can you console me with your futile words?
Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”[d]
Footnotes
- Job 21:32 tn The verb says “he will watch.” The subject is unspecified, so the translation is passive.
- Job 21:32 tn The Hebrew word refers to the tumulus, the burial mound that is erected on the spot where the person is buried.
- Job 21:33 tn The clods are those that are used to make a mound over the body. And, for a burial in the valley, see Deut 34:6. The verse here sees him as participating in his funeral and enjoying it. Nothing seems to go wrong with the wicked.
- Job 21:34 tn The word מָעַל (maʿal) is used for “treachery; deception; fraud.” Here Job is saying that their way of interpreting reality is dangerously unfaithful.
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