Job 21:9

Literal Standard Version

Their houses [are] peace without fear, || Nor [is] a rod of God 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.

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

⁷Why do the wicked live? They have become old, || Indeed, they have been mighty in wealth. ⁸Their seed is established, || Before their face with them, || And their offspring before their eyes. ⁹Their houses [are] peace without fear, || Nor [is] a rod of God on them.¹⁰His bullock breeds without fail. His cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry. ¹¹They send forth their sucklings as a flock, || And their children skip, ¹²They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, || And rejoice at the sound of a pipe. ¹³They wear out their days in good, || And in a moment go down [to] Sheol. ¹⁴And they say to God, Turn aside from us, || And the knowledge of Your ways || We have not desired. ¹⁵What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him? ¹⁶Behold, their good [is] not in their hand || (The counsel of the wicked || Has been 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
And Sarai, Abram's wife, has not borne to him, and she has a handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name [is] Hagar;

Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes does he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;

Genesis 21:1
And YHWH has looked after Sarah as He has said, and YHWH does to Sarah as He has spoken;

Genesis 21:3
and Abraham calls the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah has borne to him—Isaac;

Genesis 21:5
And Abraham [is] a son of one hundred years in his son Isaac being born to him,

Genesis 21:6
and Sarah says, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who is hearing laughs for me."

Genesis 21:13
As for the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he [is] your seed."

Genesis 21:14
And Abraham rises early in the morning, and takes bread, and a bottle of water, and gives to Hagar (placing [it] on her shoulder), also the boy, and sends her out; and she goes on, and goes astray in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba;

Genesis 21:23
and now, swear to me by God here: you do not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with you—do with me, and with the land in which you have sojourned."

Genesis 21:24
And Abraham says, "I 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.