Is it not destruction for the wicked, And disaster for the workers of iniquity?
Parallel translations
- WEB 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?
- BSB Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to 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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Cross-references · 14
- Job 21:30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
- Job 34:22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
- 1 Th 5:3For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
- Matt 7:13“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
- Prov 10:29The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
- 2 Pet 2:1But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
- Prov 21:15It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
- Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
- Ps 73:18Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
- Ps 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
- 2 Th 1:9who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
- Prov 1:27when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.
- Isa 28:21For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.
- Rom 9:22What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
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