Job 21 · Verse 30

Job 21:30

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Job 21:30, King James Version

Job 21:30 in other translations

BSBIndeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
WEBthat the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
ASVThat the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
YLTThat to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
DARBYThat the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.
BBEHow the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?
WebsterThat the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they will be brought forth to the day of wrath.

What does Job 21:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
30. Their testimony (referring perhaps to those who had visited the region where Abraham who enjoyed a revelation then lived) is that "the wicked is (now) spared (reserved) against the day of destruction (hereafter)." The Hebrew does not so well agree with [Umbreit] "in the day of destruction." Job does not deny sinners' future punishment, but their punishment in this life. They have their "good things" now. Hereafter, their lot, and that of the godly, shall be reversed (Lu 16:25). Job, by the Spirit, often utters truths which solve the difficulty under which he labored. His afflictions mostly clouded his faith, else he would have seen the solution furnished by his own words. This answers the objection, that if he knew of the resurrection in Job 19:25, and future retribution (Job 21:30), why did he not draw his reasonings elsewhere from them, which he did not? God's righteous government, however, needs to be vindicated as to this life also, and therefore the Holy Ghost has caused the argument mainly to turn on it at the same time giving glimpses of a future fuller vindication of God's ways. brought forth--not "carried away safe" or "escape" (referring to this life), as Umbreit has it. wrath--literally, "wraths," that is, multiplied and fierce wrath.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? - Though every one can tell that he has seen the wicked in prosperity, and even spend a long life in it; yet this is no proof that God loves him, or that he shall enjoy a prosperous lot in the next world. There, he shall meet with the day of wrath. There, the wicked shall be punished, and the just rewarded.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 21:27-34

Job opposes the opinion of his friends, That the wicked are sure to fall into visible and remarkable ruin, and none but the wicked; upon which principle they condemned Job as wicked. Turn to whom you will, you will find that the punishment of sinners is designed more for the other world than for this, Jude 1:14, 15. The sinner is here supposed to live in a great deal of power. The sinner shall have a splendid…

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Job 21:30 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֤יkithatH3588
לְי֣וֹםle.Yomto a day ofH3117
אֵ֭יד'eidcalamityH343
יֵחָ֣שֶׂךְye.Cha.sekhhe is sparedH2820
רָ֑עRa'an evil [person]H7451
לְי֖וֹםle.Yomto a day ofH3117
עֲבָר֣וֹתa.va.Rotfuri<es>H5678
יוּבָֽלוּ\׃yu.Va.luthey are brought forthH2986

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 21:30

  • Proverbs 16:4

    The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

  • 2 Peter 2:9-17

    The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; …

  • 2 Peter 3:7

    But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

  • Job 20:28

    The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

  • Romans 2:5

    But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

  • Psalms 110:5

    The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

  • Nahum 1:2

    God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

  • Revelation 6:17

    For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

  • Zephaniah 1:15

    That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

  • Proverbs 11:4

    Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

  • Jude 1:13

    Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the wicked.
Pr 16:4; Na 1:2; 2Pe 2:9-17; 3:7; Jude 1:13
day.
20:28; Ps 110:5; Pr 11:4; Zep 1:15; Ro 2:5; Re 6:17
wrath. Heb. wraths.

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Context

  • Job 21:29

    Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

  • Job 21:30

    That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

  • Job 21:31

    Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

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Job 21:30 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Que el malo es reservado para el día de la destrucción? Presentados serán en el día de las iras.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Que le méchant est épargné pour le jour de la calamité, qu’ils sont emmenés au jour de la fureur?
German
Elberfelder 1871
daß der Böse verschont wird am Tage des Verderbens, daß am Tage der Zornesfluten sie weggeleitet werden?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
quia in diem perditionis servatur malus, et ad diem furoris ducetur.