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Job 31:3

Is not destruction to the wicked & strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fear of God;   Integrity;   Wicked (People);   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Evil;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Worker;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 12;  

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?
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?
Bible in Basic English
Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?
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 a couenant with mine eyes: why then should I thinke on a mayde? 2 For what portion should I haue of God from aboue? and what inheritance of the Almightie from on hie? 3 Is not destruction to the wicked & strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie? 4 Doeth not he beholde my wayes and tell all my steps? 5 If I haue walked in vanitie, or if my foote hath made haste to deceite, 6 Let God weigh me in the iust balance, and he shal know mine vprightnes. 7 If my steppe hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaued to mine handes, 8 Let me sowe, & let another eate: yea, let my plantes be rooted out.

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 thou seest, will I giue vnto thee and to thy seede for euer,
Genesis 21:22
And at that same time Abimelech and Phichol his chief captaine spake vnto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.
Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared vnto him the same night, and sayde, I am the God of Abraham thy father: feare not, for I am with thee, and wil blesse thee, and will multiplie thy seede for my seruant Abrahams sake.
Genesis 28:4
And giue thee the blessing of Abraham, euen to thee & to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest inherite the lande (wherein thou art a stranger,) which God gaue vnto Abraham.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stoode aboue it, & sayd, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Izhak: the land, vpon the which thou sleepest, wil I giue thee and thy seede.
Genesis 30:25
And assoone as Rahel had borne Ioseph, Iaakob said to Laban, Sende me away that I may go vnto my place and to my countrey.
Genesis 31:2
Also Iaakob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not towards him as in times past:
Genesis 31:3
And the Lorde had said vnto Iaakob, Turne againe into the lande of thy fathers, and to thy kinred, and I wilbe with thee.
Genesis 31:5
Then sayde hee vnto them, I see your fathers countenance, that it is not towardes me as it was wont, and the God of my father hath bene with me.
Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anoyntedst the pillar, where thou vowedst a vowe vnto me. Nowe arise, get thee out of this countrey and returne vnto ye land where thou wast borne.

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 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 - 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?


 
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