Their houses are safe from fear, And the rod of God is not on them.
Parallel translations
- WEB Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
- KJV Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
- BSB Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
- NKJV Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.
- NLT Their homes are safe from every fear, and God does not punish them.
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Quick answer
The homes of the wicked are safe and untroubled, and God's chastening 'rod' does not fall on them. Their lives seem free from the judgments the friends predicted.
Overview
Job presses the contrast: the punishment his friends say the wicked must suffer often does not appear. Their households dwell in peace and security. Job is not denying God's justice but insisting it does not operate on the immediate, mechanical schedule his friends assume; final reckoning belongs to God's timing.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 73:5They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.
- Job 9:34Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
- Job 15:21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
- Ps 73:19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
- Job 18:11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
- Isa 57:19–21I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
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