Job 31:3
Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
In Context
2For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?
4Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?
Cross References
Judges 9:53But a certain woman sent a great stone, such as is used for crushing grain, on to the head of Abimelech, cracking the bone.
Job 21:30How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?
Psalms 55:23\55:22\Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.
Proverbs 1:27When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.
Proverbs 21:15It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.
Matthew 7:13Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:2-9
Job's Vindication of Himself. ( b. c. 1520.) 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? 3 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; 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 7 If my step hath… Read the whole commentary →