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Job’s Final Appeal

Job 31:3

In 11 translations

BSB
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
KJV
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
WEB
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
ASV
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
LSV
Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?
YLT
Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?
DBY
Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?
DRC
Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?
GNV
Is not destruction to the wicked and strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?
JPS
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
LXXE
Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הֲלֹא־אֵ֥יד לְעַוָּ֑ל וְ֝נֵ֗כֶר לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃
LXX-Br
Οὐαί, ἀπώλεια τῷ ἀδίκῳ, καὶ ἀπαλλοτρίωσις τοῖς ποιοῦσιν ἀνομίαν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
  • Job 34:22There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
  • Isaiah 28:21For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
  • Psalms 73:18Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
  • Romans 9:22What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
  • 2 Thessalonians 1:9They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
  • 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.
  • Jude 1:7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
  • 2 Peter 2:1Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction…
  • Proverbs 21:15Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
  • Proverbs 10:29The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.
  • 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.
  • Proverbs 1:27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

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