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Job 21:30
Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses his three companions during his discourse on the prosperity of the wicked, countering their insistence that suffering is always direct proof of divine punishment.
The words — יֵחָשֶׂךְ (yeḥāśeḵ) translates literally as “he is spared,” and עֲבָרוֹת (ʿăḇārôṯ) means “furies” or “wrath.”
The thread — The tension between delayed judgment and eventual retribution runs through Job 20:28, Proverbs 16:4, and 2 Peter 2:9.
Why it lands — The text states that the wicked frequently escape immediate disaster, requiring readers to discard rigid retribution formulas and acknowledge that divine justice does not operate on human schedules.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
- 2 Peter 2:9 if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
- Job 20:28 The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.
- Romans 2:5 But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
- 2 Peter 3:7 And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- Psalms 110:5 The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.
- Proverbs 11:4 Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Nahum 1:2 The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.
- Zephaniah 1:15 That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
- Jude 1:13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.