33 The [a]slimy valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.

34 How then comfort [b]ye me in vain, seeing in your answer there remain but lies?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:33 He shall be glad to lie in a slimy pit, which before could not be content with a royal palace.
  2. Job 21:34 Saying, that the just in this world have prosperity, and the wicked adversity.

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