Job 21:9

Bible in Basic English

Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come 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.

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 is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power? ⁸ Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them. ¹⁰ Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young. ¹¹ They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance, ¹² They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe. ¹³ Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld. ¹⁴ Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways. ¹⁵ What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him? ¹⁶ Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers 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, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 21:1
And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.

Genesis 21:3
And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.

Genesis 21:5
Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.

Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

Genesis 21:13
And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

Genesis 21:14
And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

Genesis 21:23
Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

Genesis 21:24
And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.

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.