Job 31:3
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
Majority Standard Bible
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 the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?
4Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
Cross References
Judges 9:53But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.
Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
Psalms 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
Proverbs 1:27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
Proverbs 21:15Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
Matthew 7:13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter 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 →