Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Job 31:3 in other translations
| BSB | Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity? |
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| WEB | Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? |
| ASV | Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity? |
| YLT | Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity? |
| DARBY | Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity? |
| BBE | Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers? |
| Webster | Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? |
What does Job 31:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 31:1-4
Job 31:1-40. 1. Job proceeds to prove that he deserved a better lot. As in the twenty-ninth chapter, he showed his uprightness as an emir, or magistrate in public life, so in this chapter he vindicates his character in private life. 1-4. He asserts his guarding against being allured to sin by his senses. think--rather, "cast a (lustful) look." He not merely did not so, but put it out of the question by covenanting…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 31:1-8
Job did not speak the things here recorded by way of boasting, but in answer to the charge of hypocrisy. He understood the spiritual nature of God's commandments, as reaching to the thoughts and intents of the heart. It is best to let our actions speak for us; but in some cases we owe it to ourselves and to the cause of God, solemnly to protest our innocence of the crimes of which we are falsely accused. The lusts…
Job 31:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 31:3
- Job 21:30
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
- Job 34:22
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
- Matthew 7:13
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
- Isaiah 28:21
For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
- Psalms 55:23
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- Proverbs 1:27
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- 2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
- Proverbs 10:29
The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 21:15
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
- Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
- Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
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Context
- Job 31:2
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
- Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
- Job 31:4
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job 31:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿No hay quebrantamiento para el impío, y extrañamiento para los que obran iniquidad? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | La calamité n’est-elle pas pour l’inique, et le malheur pour ceux qui pratiquent le mal? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ist nicht Verderben für den Ungerechten, und Mißgeschick für die, welche Frevel tun? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid non perditio est iniquo, et alienatio operantibus injustitiam? |