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.
Read in contextJob 34:22
There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
Read in contextMatthew 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextPsalms 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.
Read in contextProverbs 1:27
when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
Read in context2 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.
Read in contextProverbs 10:29
The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.
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