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Job 31:3

Judgment

1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

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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)

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Cross references

  • Job 21:30

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

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  • Job 34:22

    There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

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  • 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:

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Proverbs 1:27

    When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

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  • 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.

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  • Proverbs 10:29

    The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

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