New Revised Standard Version
The clods of the valley are sweet to them; everyone will follow after, and those who went before are innumerable.

Contemporary English Version
the earth welcomes them home, while crowds mourn.

New American Bible
Sweet to him are the clods of the valley. All humankind will follow after him, and countless others before him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.

He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.

sweet

Job 3:17,18 There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest. . . .

every man

Job 30:23 I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Ecclesiastes 1:4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 8:8 It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment: