Job 21:9

Amplified Bible

"Their houses are safe from fear; And the rod of God is not on them.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their homes are secure and free of fear;no rod from God strikes them.

Hebrew Names Version
Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.

King James Version
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

English Standard Version
Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

New Century Version
Their homes are safe and without fear; God does not punish them.

New English Translation
Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

New American Standard Bible
Their houses are safe from fear, And the rod of God is not on them.

World English Bible
Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

Legacy Standard Bible
Their houses are safe from dread,And the rod of God is not on them.

Berean Standard Bible
Their homes are safe from fear; the rod of God is not upon them.

Contemporary English Version
They have no worries at home, and God never punishes them.

Complete Jewish Bible
Their houses are safe, with nothing to fear; God's rod is not on them.

Darby Translation
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.

Easy-to-Read Version
Their homes are safe and free from fear. God does not punish them.

George Lamsa Translation
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

Good News Translation
God does not bring disaster on their homes; they never have to live in terror.

Lexham English Bible
Their houses are safe without fear, and the rod of God is not upon them.

Literal Translation
Their houses are in peace, without fear; nor is God's rod on them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their houses are safe from all feare, for the rodd of God doth not smyte the.

American Standard Version
Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.

Bible in Basic English
Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Their houses are safe, without fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

King James Version (1611)
Their houses are safe from feare, neither is the rod of God vpon them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Their houses are safe from all feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Their houses are prosperous, neither have they any where cause for fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.

English Revised Version
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Her housis ben sikur, and pesible; and the yerde of God is not on hem.

Update Bible Version
Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God on them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them.

New King James Version
Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.

New Living Translation
Their homes are safe from every fear, and God does not punish them.

New Life Bible
Their houses are safe from fear. And the punishment of God does not come upon them.

New Revised Standard
Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Their houses, are at peace, without dread, neither is, the rod of GOD, upon them;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.

Revised Standard Version
Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

Young's Literal Translation
Their houses [are] peace without fear, Nor [is] a rod of God upon them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Their houses are safe from fear, And the rod of God is not on them.

Contextual Overview

⁷"Why do the wicked still live, Become old, and become mighty in power? ⁸"Their children and descendants are established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes. ⁹"Their houses are safe from fear; And the rod of God is not on them.¹⁰"His bull breeds and does not fail; His cow calves and does not miscarry. ¹¹"They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children skip about. ¹²"They lift up their voices and sing to the tambourine and the lyre And rejoice to the sound of the flute. ¹³"They fully enjoy their days in prosperity, And so go down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) in a [peaceful] moment. ¹⁴"Yet they say to God, 'Depart from us, For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways. ¹⁵'Who [and what] is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what would we gain if we plead with Him?' ¹⁶"But notice, the prosperity of the wicked is not in their hand (in their power); The counsel of the wicked [and the mystery of God's dealings with the ungodly] is far from my comprehension.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

safe from fear: Heb. peace from fear, Job 15:21, Job 18:11, Psalms 73:19, Isaiah 57:19-21

the rod: Job 9:34, Psalms 73:5

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 6:2 - so Luke 17:27 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him any children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 17:20
"As for Ishmael, I have heard and listened to you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will greatly multiply him [through his descendants]. He will be the father of twelve princes (chieftains, sheiks), and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 21:1
The LORD graciously remembered and visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for her as He had promised.

Genesis 21:3
Abraham named his son Isaac (laughter), the son to whom Sarah gave birth.

Genesis 21:5
Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born.

Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh; all who hear [about our good news] will laugh with me."

Genesis 21:13
"And I will also make a nation of [Ishmael] the son of the maid, because he is your descendant."

Genesis 21:14
So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she left [but lost her way] and wandered [aimlessly] in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

Genesis 21:23
so now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal unfairly with me [by breaking any agreements we have] or with my son or with my descendants, but as I have treated you with kindness, you shall do the same to me and to the land in which you have sojourned (temporarily lived)."

Genesis 21:24
And Abraham said, "I will swear."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their houses [are] safe from fear,.... Of enemies besetting them, entering into them, and pillaging and plundering them; of thieves and robbers breaking into them, and carrying off their substance: or "their houses [are] peace" o; their families live in peace among themselves, or enjoy all prosperity, which the word peace frequently signifies; they have peace and prosperity within doors and are free "from fear", or devoid of fear, from anything without;

neither [is] the rod of God upon them; neither his rod of chastisement, which is upon his own people, and with which he scourges every son, though in love for their good, and which was now upon Job, Job 9:34; nor any sore judgment, as famine, plague, sword, or any other; no, not even the common afflictions and troubles that men are exercised with.

o שלום "pax", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their houses are safe from fear - Margin, “peace from.” The friends of Job had maintained just the contrary; see Job 20:27-28; Job 15:21-24. Their idea was, that the wicked man would never be free from alarms. Job says, that they lived in security and peace, and that their houses are preserved from the intrusions of evil-minded people.

Neither is the rod of God upon them - The “rod” is an emblem of punishment. The idea is, that they were free from the chastisements which their sins deserved. There can be no doubt that there are cases enough in which the wicked live in security, to justify Job in all that he here affirms, as there are instances enough in which the wicked are cut off for their sins. to make what his friends said plausible. The truth is, good and evil are intermingled. There is a “general” course of events by which the wicked are involved in calamity in this life, and the righteous are prospered; but still, there are so many exceptions as to show the necessity of a future state of rewards and punishments. To us, who look to that future world, all is clear. But that view of the future state of retribution was not possessed by Job and his friends.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 21:9. Neither is the rod of God upon them.] They are not afflicted as other men.