Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked? 1 And a disaster to the poalei aven (workers of wrong)? 1
Orthodox Jewish 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 chelek of Eloah is there from above? 1 And what nachalah of Shaddai from on high? 1
4Doth not He see my derech, 1 and count all my steps? 1
Cross References
Judges 9:53And a certain woman dropped an upper millstone upon Avimelechʼs head, and cracked his gulgolet (skull).
Job 21:30That the rah is spared in the yom eid (day of calamity)? 1 They shall be rescued in the yom avarot (day of wrath). 1
Psalms 55:23Cast thy burden upon Hashem, 1 and He shall sustain thee; 1 He shall never suffer the tzaddik to be moved. 1
Proverbs 1:27When your pachad (terror) cometh like a storm, 1 and your calamity cometh like a whirlwind; 1 when tzarah (distress) and oppression cometh upon you. 1
Proverbs 21:15It is simchah to the tzaddik to do mishpat, 1 but terror for the po'alei aven (workers of iniquity). 1
Matthew 7:13Enter through the derech (way) of the shaar hatzarut (gate of narrowness), for wide is the delet and broad is the rekhov (street) leading to Avaddon (destruction, hell, Abaddon), and rabbim (many) are they who 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 →