Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
King James Version
In Context
2For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
4Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Cross References
Judges 9:53And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.
Job 21:30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Psalms 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Proverbs 1:27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Proverbs 21:15It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Matthew 7:13Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
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 →