Job 21:30
Wicked people are spared in times of disaster; they are rescued from the day of judgment.
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In Context
29Haven't you asked people who travel? Don't you pay attention to what they tell you?
31Who confronts them with their actions? Who pays them back for what they have done?
Cross References
Joshua 10:18he gave this order, “Roll some large stones to block the entrance to the cave and have some men guard it.
Psalms 73:5They don't have problems like other people; they don't get hit by disasters like everybody else.
Proverbs 11:4Wealth won't help you on judgment day, but goodness saves you from death.
Nahum 1:2The Lord is a jealous and avenging God—the Lord God is avenging and angry. The Lord takes vengeance on his enemies, he is angry with those who are hostile to him.
Romans 2:5Due to your hard-hearted attitude and your refusal to repent, you're making things far worse for yourself on the day of retribution when God's judgment is demonstrated to be absolutely right.
2 Peter 3:7But by means of that same divine command the heavens and the earth that now exist are reserved for destruction by fire at the day of judgment when the wicked will be destroyed.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:28-34
Punishment of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. 28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? 29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. 31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? 32 Yet shall he be… Read the whole commentary →