Job 31:3

Previously I thought that surely [RHQ] it was unrighteous people who would experience calamities, and that it was those who do what is wrong who would experience disasters.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2If I did not do what I promised, what would God who is in heaven [MTY] do to me [RHQ]? Almighty God would certainly not [RHQ] give me any reward!

4God certainly sees [RHQ] everything that I do, so why is he causing me to suffer? It is as though he counts every step that I take.

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Cross References

Judges 9:53But when Abimelech came near the doorway, a woman who was on the roof dropped a big grinding stone on his head, and crushed his skull.

Job 21:30that wicked people usually do not suffer at the time when there are great disasters; that wicked people are the ones who are rescued when God is angry and punishes people [MTY]?

Psalms 55:23God, you will cause murderers [MTY] and liars to die before they have lived half as long as they expect to live; but as for me, I will trust in you.

Proverbs 1:27When calamities strike you like a big storm, when disasters hit you like a violent wind, when all kinds of things distress you and give you trouble, I will ridicule you!

Proverbs 21:15Good/Righteous people are happy when they see others do what is just/fair, but those who do what is evil are terrified when they think about what may happen to them.

Matthew 7:13“ Going to where people live eternally with God in heaven is difficult. It is like going along a narrow road [PRS, MET] that leads to a narrow gate. Not many people find that way. The way that most people take is easy, but it results in their being punished { God punishing them} in hell. That way is like a wide road that people walk on [PRS, MET] until they reach the wide gate, but that road and that gate lead to where they will be destroyed { God will destroy them}. Many people enter that gate. So I am telling you to leave the wide road and enter the narrow gate to heaven.”

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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