Job 31:3

1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

2 For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

4 Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

5 If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
KJV
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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?
DARBY
Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?
BLB
Is not disaster for the perverse one and calamity for the workers of iniquity?
ÅB
Rammer ikke fordervelse den urettferdige, og ulykke dem som gjør det onde?
OTB
Er det ikke ulykke for den urettferdige,
Og uhell for dem som gjør urett?
B1930
Rammer ikke fordervelse den urettferdige, og ulykke dem som gjør det onde?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 21:30

    Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

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  • Job 34:22

    There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.

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  • Matthew 7:13

    Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

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  • Isaiah 28:21

    For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

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  • Psalms 55:23

    But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

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  • Proverbs 1:27

    when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

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  • 2 Peter 2:1

    Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

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  • Proverbs 10:29

    The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.

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