Job 31:3
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
BSB
ASV
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
KJV
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Is not destruction to the wicked? - That is, Job says that he was well aware that destruction would overtake the wicked, and that if he had given indulgence to impure desires he could have looked for nothing else. Well knowing this, he says, he had guarded himself in the most careful manner from sin, and had labored with the greatest assiduity to keep his eyes and his heart pure. And a strange punishment - - ונכר weneker. The word used here, means literally strangeness - a strange thing, something with which we were unacquainted.
Is there not alienation (so some read it) to the workers of iniquity? This is the sinfulness of the sin that it alienates the mind from God ( Eph. iv. 18, 19 ), and this is the punishment of the sinners that they shall be eternally set at a distance from him, Rev. xxii.
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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 on…
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Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only…
If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
and many false prophets will arise and mislead many.
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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…
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So David and his men went up to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, God has burst out against my enemies by my hand.” So they called that…
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Job 34:22There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
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Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
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Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
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The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
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