Job 31:3
Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?
Young's Literal Translation
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?
4Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?
Cross References
Judges 9:53and a certain woman doth cast a piece of a rider on the head of Abimelech, and breaketh his skull,
Job 21:30That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
Psalms 55:23And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I — I do trust in Thee!
Proverbs 1:27When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
Proverbs 21:15To do justice [is] joy to the righteous, But ruin to workers of iniquity.
Matthew 7:13'Go ye in through the strait 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 →