Job 31:3

Bible in Basic English

Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Doesn’t disaster come to the unjustand misfortune to evildoers?

Hebrew Names Version
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

King James Version
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

English Standard Version
Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?

New Century Version
It is ruin for evil people and disaster for those who do wrong.

New English Translation
Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?

Amplified Bible
"Does not tragedy fall [justly] on the unjust And disaster to those who work wickedness?

New American Standard Bible
"Is it not disaster to the criminal, And misfortune to those who practice injustice?

World English Bible
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Is not destruction to the wicked & strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?

Legacy Standard Bible
Is it not disaster to the unjustAnd misfortune to those who work iniquity?

Berean Standard Bible
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

Contemporary English Version
In fact, God sends disaster on all who sin,

Complete Jewish Bible
Isn't it calamity to the unrighteous? disaster to those who do evil?

Darby Translation
Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?

Easy-to-Read Version
He sends trouble to the wicked and disaster to those who do wrong.

George Lamsa Translation
For it is destruction to the wicked, and punishment to the workers of iniquity.

Good News Translation
He sends disaster and ruin to those who do wrong.

Lexham English Bible
Is not disaster for the evil one and ruin for the workers of mischief?

Literal Translation
Is it not disaster to the perverse, and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for the vngodly & he yt ioyneth himself to ye copani of wicked doers shal not destruccion & misery came vpon him?

American Standard Version
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

King James Version (1611)
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Is not destruction to the wicked? and straunge punishement to the workers of iniquitie?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.

English Revised Version
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether perdicioun is not to a wickid man, and alienacioun of God is to men worchynge wickidnesse?

Update Bible Version
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Webster's Bible Translation
[Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?

New King James Version
Is it not destruction for the wicked, And disaster for the workers of iniquity?

New Living Translation
Isn't it calamity for the wicked and misfortune for those who do evil?

New Life Bible
Does not trouble come to those who are not right and good? Do not hard times come to those who do wrong?

New Revised Standard
Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Is there not calamity, for the perverse? and misfortune, for the workers of iniquity?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

Revised Standard Version
Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Young's Literal Translation
Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Is it not calamity to the unjust And disaster to those who work iniquity?

Contextual Overview

¹ I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin? ² For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven? ³ Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers? ⁴ Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered? ⁵ If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit; ⁶ (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:) ⁷ If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands; ⁸ Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

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

Genesis 13:15
For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

Genesis 21:22
Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

Genesis 26:24
That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.

Genesis 28:4
And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.

Genesis 28:13
And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

Genesis 30:25
Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country.

Genesis 31:2
And Jacob saw that Laban's feeling for him was no longer what it had been before.

Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

Genesis 31:5
And he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's feeling is no longer what it was to me; but the God of my father has been with me

Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.

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 w^eneker. 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?