King James Version
Job 21:32 in the King James Version says “Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. grave: Heb. graves remain: Heb. watch in the heap” — study this verse from Job chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. grave: Heb. graves remain: Heb. watch in the heap”
Job 21:32 · KJV
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. wrath: Heb. wraths
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. grave: Heb. graves remain: Heb. watch in the heap
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? falsehood: Heb. transgression?
KJV Study — Public Domain
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“Yet shall he be brought”
H2986properly, to flow; causatively, to bring (especially with pomp)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“and shall remain”
H8245to be alert, i.e., sleepless; hence to be on the lookout (whether for good or ill)
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