“Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.”
"Yet he is borne to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb." The wicked person receives honorable burial and memorial. Even in death, he is respected. The verse suggests that the wicked's dignity is maintained to the end.
Church Fathers on Job 21:32
He shall be brought to the graves, and in the heap of the dead bodies he shall watch. Whereas graves cover dead bodies, what else is denoted by ‘the graves’ but the lost, in whom their souls extinct of the life of blessedness lie as in graves? Thus this wicked one shall be ‘brought to the graves,’ in that he shall be admitted in the hearts of the wicked, in that they only admit him, in whom are found souls dead to God, concerning whom it is rightly said by the Prophet…
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