Job 34:30
That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
Job 34:30 in other translations
| BSB | that godless men should not rule or lay snares for the people. |
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| WEB | that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people. |
| ASV | That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people. |
| YLT | From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people; |
| DARBY | That the ungodly man reign not, that the people be not ensnared. |
| BBE | ... |
| Webster | That the hypocrite may not reign, lest the people should be ensnared. |
What does Job 34:30 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 34:16-30
Elihu appeals directly to Job himself. Could he suppose that God was like those earthly princes, who hate right, who are unfit to rule, and prove the scourges of mankind? It is daring presumption to condemn God's proceedings, as Job had done by his discontents. Elihu suggests divers considerations to Job, to produce in him high thoughts of God, and so to persuade him to submit. Job had often wished to plead his…
Job 34:30 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 34:30
- Proverbs 29:2-12
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance. The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it. A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet. …
- Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
- Revelation 13:3-4
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4-11
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. …
- Job 34:21
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
- Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
- 2 Kings 21:9
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
- Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
- 1 Kings 12:28-30
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And he set the one in Beth–el, and the other put he in Dan. And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
- Revelation 13:11-14
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
- Hosea 13:11
I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
- Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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- Job 34:29
When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
- Job 34:30
That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
- Job 34:31
Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Job 34:30 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Haciendo que no reine el hombre hipócrita para vejaciones del pueblo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Pour empêcher l’homme impie de régner, pour écarter du peuple les pièges. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | damit der ruchlose Mensch nicht regiere, damit sie nicht Fallstricke des Volkes seien. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Qui regnare facit hominem hypocritam propter peccata populi. |