Bible Strands
Job 31:3
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job speaks in his sworn oath of innocence, addressing his friends and the divine court as he lists his moral defenses. He poses a rhetorical question to establish the expected boundary between righteous conduct and its consequences.
The words — אֵ֥יד ('eid) denotes calamity, and אָֽוֶן ('A.ven) denotes wickedness. The phrasing directly links these terms to the fate of the unjust and those who practice evil.
The thread — The theme of divine judgment on the wicked appears in Job 34:22 and Psalms 55:23, while Job 21:30 records a contrasting observation that the wicked are sometimes spared from immediate destruction.
Why it lands — It asks a reader to accept the textual claim that disaster and calamity are the guaranteed portion of the unjust and workers of iniquity. The verse frames moral accountability as a structural reality rather than a conditional promise.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Cross-references
- Job 21:30 Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
- Job 34:22 There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
- Psalms 55:23 But 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.
- Psalms 73:18 Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
- Proverbs 1:27 when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
- Proverbs 10:29 The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.
- Proverbs 21:15 Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
- Isaiah 28:21 For 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.
- Matthew 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
- Romans 9:22 What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?