Job 31:3
Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
In Context
2And what [is] the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?
4Does He not see my ways, || And number all my steps?
Cross References
Judges 9:53and a certain woman casts a piece of a millstone on the head of Abimelech, and breaks his skull,
Job 21:30That the wicked is spared to a day of calamity. They are brought to a day of wrath.
Psalms 55:23And You, O God, bring them down || To a pit of destruction, || Men of blood and deceit do not reach to half their days, || And I trust in You!
Proverbs 1:27When your fear comes as destruction, || And your calamity comes as a windstorm, || When adversity and distress come on you.
Proverbs 21:15To do justice [is] joy to the righteous, || But ruin to workers of iniquity.
Matthew 7:13Go in through the narrow gate, because wide [is] the gate and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through 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 →