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THE MESSAGE
Job 31:3
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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 destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for 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?
"Does not tragedy fall [justly] on the unjust And disaster to those who work wickedness?
"Is it not disaster to the criminal, And misfortune to those who practice injustice?
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Is not destruction to the wicked & strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?
Is it not disaster to the unjustAnd misfortune to those who work iniquity?
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
In fact, God sends disaster on all who sin,
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.
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 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?
As for the vngodly & he yt ioyneth himself to ye copani of wicked doers shal not destruccion & misery came vpon him?
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?
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?
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.
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Whether perdicioun is not to a wickid man, and alienacioun of God is to men worchynge wickidnesse?
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 iniquity?
Is it not destruction for the wicked, And disaster for the workers of iniquity?
Isn't it calamity for the wicked and misfortune for those who do evil?
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 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 calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?
"Is it not calamity to the unjust And disaster 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
At about that same time, Abimelech and the captain of his troops, Phicol, spoke to Abraham: "No matter what you do, God is on your side. So swear to me that you won't do anything underhanded to me or any of my family. For as long as you live here, swear that you'll treat me and my land as well as I've treated you."
Then God was right before him, saying, "I am God , the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. I'm giving the ground on which you are sleeping to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as the dust of the Earth; they'll stretch from west to east and from north to south. All the families of the Earth will bless themselves in you and your descendants. Yes. I'll stay with you, I'll protect you wherever you go, and I'll bring you back to this very ground. I'll stick with you until I've done everything I promised you."
After Rachel had had Joseph, Jacob spoke to Laban, "Let me go back home. Give me my wives and children for whom I've served you. You know how hard I've worked for you."
That's when God said to Jacob, "Go back home where you were born. I'll go with you."
Three days later, Laban got the news: "Jacob's run off." Laban rounded up his relatives and chased after him. Seven days later they caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. That night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, "Be careful what you do to Jacob, whether good or bad."
God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau."
At the end, Joseph said to his brothers, "I am ready to die. God will most certainly pay you a visit and take you out of this land and back to the land he so solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
A Song of the Sons of Korah God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need him. We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake, Before the rush and roar of oceans, the tremors that shift mountains. Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God -of-Angel-Armies protects us.
Don't be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have. Since God assured us, "I'll never let you down, never walk off and leave you," we can boldly quote, God is there, ready to help; I'm fearless no matter what. Who or what can get to me?
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?
