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Wycliffe Bible

Job 21:9

Her housis ben sikur, and pesible; and the yerde of God is not on hem.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Rich, the;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Desire;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom literature;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Wealth;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Pashur;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hid;   Root;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Correction;   Job, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - God;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 25;  

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.
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 Whi therfor lyuen wickid men? Thei ben enhaunsid, and coumfortid with richessis. 8 Her seed dwellith bifor hem; the cumpeny of kynesmen, and of sones of sones dwellith in her siyt. 9 Her housis ben sikur, and pesible; and the yerde of God is not on hem. 10 The cow of hem conseyuede, and caluede not a deed calf; the cow caluyde, and is not priued of hir calf. 11 Her litle children goen out as flockis; and her yonge children `maken fulli ioye with pleies. 12 Thei holden tympan, and harpe; and ioien at the soun of orgun. 13 Thei leden in goodis her daies; and in a point thei goen doun to hellis. 14 Whiche men seiden to God, Go thou awei fro us; we nylen the kunnyng of thi weies. 15 Who is Almiyti God, that we serue him? and what profitith it to vs, if we preien him? 16 Netheles for her goodis ben not in her hond, `that is, power, the counsel of wickid men be fer fro 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
Therfor Sarai, wijf of Abram, hadde not gendrid fre children; but sche hadde a seruauntesse of Egipt, Agar bi name, and seide to hir hosebonde, Lo!
Genesis 17:20
also on Ysmael Y haue herd thee, lo! Y schal blesse him, and Y schal encreesse, and Y schal multiplie him greetli; he schal gendre twelue dukis, and Y schal make hym in to a greet folk.
Genesis 21:1
Forsothe God visitide Sare, as he bihiyte, and fillide tho thingis, that he spak.
Genesis 21:3
And Abraham clepide the name of his sone, whom Sare childide to him, Ysaac.
Genesis 21:5
whanne he was of an hundrid yeer; for Ysaac was borun in this age of the fadir.
Genesis 21:6
And Sare seide, The Lord made leiyynge to me, and who euer schal here schal leiye with me.
Genesis 21:13
but also I schal make the sone of the handmaid in to a greet folk, for he is thi seed.
Genesis 21:14
And so Abraham roos eerli, and took breed, and a botel of watir, and puttide on hir schuldre, and bitook the child, and lefte hir; and whanne sche hadde go, sche yede out of the weie in the wildirnesse of Bersabee.
Genesis 21:23
therfore swere thou bi God that thou noye not me, and myn eiris, and my kynrede; but bi the mersi whych Y dide to thee, do thou to me, and to the lond in which thou lyuedist a comelyng.
Genesis 21:24
And Abraham seide, Y schal swere.

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.


 
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