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Job 21:32 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 21:32Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 21:326 words
HebrewMeaning
וְ֭/הוּאwəhwʾ
and heconjH1931
as for her · him · it · the same ···
לִ/קְבָר֣וֹתliqəbārwōt
to the gravepronH6913
grave · sepulchre
יוּבָ֑לywbāl
he will be borneverbH2986
carry · lead
וְֽ/עַלwəʿal
and overconjH5921
according to · after · against · among ···
גָּדִ֥ישׁgādiyš
a tombnounH1430
tomb
יִשְׁקֽוֹדyišəqwōd
someone will keep watchverbH8245
remain · wake · watch
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 15 §69
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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