Job 21:9

King James Version

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon 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.

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.

Amplified Bible
"Their houses are safe from fear; And the rod of God is not on 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 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? ⁸ Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. ¹⁰ Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. ¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. ¹² They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. ¹³ They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. ¹⁴ Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? ¹⁶ Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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 bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 17:20
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 21:1
And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

Genesis 21:3
And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

Genesis 21:5
And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

Genesis 21:13
And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

Genesis 21:14
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Genesis 21:23
Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

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.