the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Job 31:3
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Isn't it calamity for the wicked and misfortune for those who do evil?
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to 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?
[Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
"Does not tragedy fall [justly] on the unjust And disaster to those who work wickedness?
Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?
Whether perdicioun is not to a wickid man, and alienacioun of God is to men worchynge wickidnesse?
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
In fact, God sends disaster on all who sin,
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?
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.
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?
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 not destruction to the wicked & strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?
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 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 destruction to the wicked? and straunge punishement to the workers of iniquitie?
Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.
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 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?
Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to 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 disaster to the criminal, And misfortune to those who practice injustice?
Is it not destruction for the wicked, And disaster for the workers of iniquity?
"Is it not calamity to the unjust And disaster to those who work iniquity?
Is it not disaster to the unjustAnd misfortune 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 land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
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 ×× ×ר "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 - - ×× ×ר 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 - αÌÏαλλοÏÏιÌÏÏÎ¹Ï apallotrioÌsis - 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?
