Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Parallel translations
- WEB Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
- BSB Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
- NKJV Is it not destruction for the wicked, And disaster for the workers of iniquity?
- NASB “Is it not disaster to the criminal, And misfortune to those who practice injustice?
- NLT Isn’t it calamity for the wicked and misfortune for those who do evil?
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Quick answer
Job affirms that calamity belongs to the unrighteous and disaster to those who do iniquity. He states the moral order that wrongdoing brings ruin.
Overview
Job acknowledges the principle that evildoers face calamity, a truth his friends had wrongly applied to him. Here Job uses it not to condemn himself but to express his fear of God and motive for righteousness. While the simple link between sin and disaster is complicated by Job's own innocent suffering, the deeper truth stands that God judges iniquity, a judgment fully borne for sinners by Christ on the cross.
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- Job 21:30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
- Job 34:22There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
- 1 Th 5:3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
- Matt 7:13Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
- Prov 10:29The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
- 2 Pet 2:1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
- Prov 21:15It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
- Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
- Ps 73:18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
- Ps 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- 2 Th 1:9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
- Prov 1:27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Isa 28:21For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
- Rom 9:22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
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