Job 31:3

Is not calamity [ready] for the unjust? and misfortune for the wrong-doers?

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And what then would have been my portion of God from above? and what lot of the Almighty from on high?

4Behold, he truly seeth my ways, and numbereth all my steps;

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Cross References

Judges 9:53But a certain woman cast a piece of an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and crushed his skull.

Job 21:30That the bad man is reserved for the day of calamity, [that the wicked] are carried forward to the day of wrath.

Psalms 55:23(55:24) But thou, O God, thou wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: let not the men of blood and deceit live out half their days; but I will indeed trust in thee.

Proverbs 1:27When your terror cometh like the tempest-cloud, and your calamity hasteneth like a whirlwind; when there come upon you distress and affliction.

Proverbs 21:15It is joy to the righteous to execute justice; but it is a terror to wrong-doers.

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 →

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