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Job 31:3

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

KJV

Numquid non perditio est iniquo, et alienatio operantibus injustitiam ?

Vulgate

οὐαί, ἀπώλεια τῷ ἀδίκῳ, καὶ ἀπαλλοτρίωσις τοῖς ποιοῦσιν ἀνομίαν.

LXX

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

ASV

הֲ/לֹא אֵ֥יד לְ/עַוָּ֑ל וְ֝/נֵ֗כֶר לְ/פֹ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אָֽוֶן
'vn
noun · 78×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
noun · 24×
נֵ֗כֶר
nkr
noun · 2×
עַוָּ֑ל
'vl
noun · 5×
פֹּ֣עֲלֵי
p'ly
verb · 55×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 5:6 — But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
  • 1Sam 15:18 — And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
  • 2Sam 18:9 — And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heave
  • Isa 1:28 — And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
  • Job 21:30 — That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
  • Job 34:22 — There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
  • Judg 9:53 — And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.
  • Num 16:30 — But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men hav