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Job 31:3
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Doesn’t disaster come to the unjustand misfortune to evildoers?
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?
It is ruin for evil people and disaster for those who do wrong.
Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?
"Does not tragedy fall [justly] on the unjust And disaster to those who work wickedness?
"Is it not disaster to the criminal, And misfortune to those who practice injustice?
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Is not destruction to the wicked & strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?
Is it not disaster to the unjustAnd misfortune to those who work iniquity?
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
In fact, God sends disaster on all who sin,
Isn't it calamity to the unrighteous? disaster to those who do evil?
Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?
He sends trouble to the wicked and disaster to those who do wrong.
For it is destruction to the wicked, and punishment to the workers of iniquity.
He sends disaster and ruin to those who do wrong.
Is not disaster for the evil one and ruin for the workers of mischief?
Is it not disaster to the perverse, and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
As for the vngodly & he yt ioyneth himself to ye copani of wicked doers shal not destruccion & misery came vpon him?
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?
Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Whether perdicioun is not to a wickid man, and alienacioun of God is to men worchynge wickidnesse?
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
[Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?
Is it not destruction for the wicked, And disaster for the workers of iniquity?
Isn't it calamity for the wicked and misfortune for those who do evil?
Does not trouble come to those who are not right and good? Do not hard times come to those who do wrong?
Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?
Is there not calamity, for the perverse? and misfortune, for the workers of iniquity?
Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?
Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?
Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?
"Is it not calamity to the unjust And disaster to those who work iniquity?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
destruction: Job 21:30, Psalms 55:23, Psalms 73:18, Proverbs 1:27, Proverbs 10:29, Proverbs 21:15, Matthew 7:13, Romans 9:22, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 2 Thessalonians 1:9, 2 Peter 2:1
a strange: Isaiah 28:21, Jude 1:7
Reciprocal: Numbers 16:30 - make a new thing Judges 9:53 - woman Judges 9:56 - God rendered Judges 16:30 - and the house 1 Samuel 5:6 - emerods 1 Samuel 15:18 - the sinners 2 Samuel 17:23 - and hanged 2 Samuel 18:9 - taken up 2 Kings 1:2 - was sick 2 Kings 9:35 - but they found Job 20:29 - the portion Job 27:8 - General Job 27:13 - the portion Job 34:22 - the Isaiah 1:28 - the destruction
Cross-References
For all the lande whiche thou seest, wyll I geue vnto thee, and to thy seede for euer.
And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
And the Lorde appeared vnto hym the same night, and sayde: I am the God of Abraham thy father, feare not, for I am with thee, and wyl blesse thee and multiple thy seede for my seruaunt Abrahams sake.
And geue the blessing of Abraham vnto thee, and to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest receaue to inherite ye lande wherein thou art a straunger, whiche God gaue vnto Abraham.
Yea, and God from aboue leaned vpon it, and sayde: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isahac, the land which thou sleepest vpon, wyll I geue thee and thy seede.
Assoone as Rachel had borne Ioseph, Iacob sayde to Laban: Send me away, that I maye go vnto my owne place, and to my countrey.
And Iacob behelde the countenaunce of Laban, and beholde, it was not towardes hym as it was wont to be.
And the Lorde sayde vnto Iacob: turne agayne into the lande of thy fathers, and to thy kynrede, and I wyll be with thee.
And sayde vnto them: I see your fathers countenauce that it is not toward me as it was wont to be: but the God of my father hath ben with me.
I am the God of Bethel, where thou annoyntedst the stone set vp on an ende, and where thou vowedst a vowe vnto me: nowe therefore aryse, and get thee out of this countrey, and returne vnto the lande where thou wast borne.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[Is] not destruction to the wicked?.... It is even to such wicked men, who live in the sin of fornication, and make it their business to ensnare and corrupt virgins; and which is another reason why Job was careful to avoid that sin; wickedness of every sort is the cause of destruction, destruction and misery are in the ways of wicked men, and their wicked ways lead unto it, and issue in it, even destruction of soul and body in hell, which is swift and sudden, and will be everlasting: this is laid up for wicked men among the treasures of God's wrath, and they are reserved that, and there is no way of deliverance from it but by Christ:
and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity; the iniquity of fornication and whoredom, Proverbs 30:20; who make it their business to commit it, and live in a continued course of uncleanness and other sins; a punishment, something strange, unusual, and uncommon, as the filthy venereal disease in this world, and everlasting burnings in another; or "alienation" y, a state of estrangement and banishment from the presence of God and Christ, and from the society of the saints, to all eternity; see Matthew 25:46.
y ונכר "et abalienatio", Munster; "et alienatio", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Drusius, Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Is not destruction to the wicked? - That is, Job says that he was well aware that destruction would overtake the wicked, and that if he had given indulgence to impure desires he could have looked for nothing else. Well knowing this, he says, he had guarded himself in the most careful manner from sin, and had labored with the greatest assiduity to keep his eyes and his heart pure.
And a strange punishment - - ונכר weneker. The word used here, means literally strangeness - a strange thing, something with which we were unacquainted. It is used here evidently in the sense of a strange or unusual punishment; something which does not occur in the ordinary course of events. The sense is, that for the sin here particularly referred to, God would interpose to inflict vengeance in a manner such as did not occur in the ordinary dealings of his providence. There would be some punishment adopted especially to this sin, and which would mark it with his special displeasure. Has it not been so in all ages? The Vulgate renders it, alienatio, and the Septuagint translates it in a similar manner - ἀπαλλοτρίωσις apallotriōsis - and they seem to have understood it as followed by entire alienation from God; an idea which would be every where sustained by a reference to the history of the sin referred to by Job. There is no sin that so much poisons all the fountains of pure feeling in the soul, and none that will so certainly terminate in the entire wreck of character.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 31:3. Is not destruction to the wicked — If I had been guilty of such secret hypocritical proceedings, professing faith in the true God while in eye and heart an idolater, would not such a worker of iniquity be distinguished by a strange and unheard-of punishment?
