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30-32 that the evil man is usually spared in the day of calamity and allowed to escape. No one rebukes him openly. No one repays him for what he has done. And an honor guard keeps watch at his grave. 33 A great funeral procession precedes and follows him as the soft earth covers him. 34 How can you comfort me when your whole premise is so wrong?”

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32 They are carried to the grave,
    and watch is kept over their tombs.(A)
33 The soil in the valley is sweet to them;(B)
    everyone follows after them,
    and a countless throng goes[a] before them.(C)

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

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Footnotes

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

32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

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