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Job 31

Job 31:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Is not destruction
'eyd (Hebrew #343)
oppression; by implication misfortune, ruin
KJV usage: calamity, destruction.
Pronounce: ade
Origin: from the same as 181 (in the sense of bending down)
to the wicked
`avval (Hebrew #5767)
evil (morally)
KJV usage: unjust, unrighteous, wicked.
Pronounce: av-vawl'
Origin: intensive from 5765
? and a strange
neker (Hebrew #5235)
from 5234; something strange, i.e. unexpected calamity
KJV usage: strange.
Pronounce: neh'-ker
Origin: or noker {no'-ker}
punishment to the workers
pa`al (Hebrew #6466)
to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
KJV usage: commit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er).
Pronounce: paw-al'
Origin: a primitive root
of iniquity
'aven (Hebrew #205)
strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain ,vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Pronounce: aw-ven'
Origin: from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught)
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destruction.
Job 21:30• 30To a day of destruction the wicked is spared,{HR}To a day of great wrath they are led off. (Job 21:30)
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Psa. 55:23• 23And thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the pit of corruption:{HR}Men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days.{HR}But for me, I will trust in thee. (Psa. 55:23)
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Psa. 73:18• 18Truly thou settest them in slippery places,{HR}Thou hast caused them to fall into ruins. (Psa. 73:18)
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Prov. 1:27• 27When your fear cometh as sudden destruction,{HR}And your calamity cometh as a whirlwind;{HR}When distress and anguish come upon you. (Prov. 1:27)
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Prov. 10:29• 29The way of Jehovah [is] strength to the upright one;{HR}But destruction to the workers of iniquity. (Prov. 10:29)
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Prov. 21:15• 15[It is] joy to the righteous to do justice,{HR}But destruction to the doers of iniquity. (Prov. 21:15)
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Matt. 7:13• 13Enter ye through the narrow gate; because wide [is] the gate, and broad the way that leadeth off unto destruction and many are they that enter through it. (Matt. 7:13)
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Rom. 9:22• 22And if God, willing to display his wrath and to make known his power, endured in much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, (Rom. 9:22)
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1 Thess. 5:3• 3When they are saying peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh on them as the pain on her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape. (1 Thess. 5:3)
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2 Thess. 1:9• 9Who shall pay as penalty everlasting destruction from [the] presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, (2 Thess. 1:9)
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2 Peter 2:1• 1But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also false teachers among you, such as shall bring in by-the-bye sects of perdition, denying even the Sovereign Master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift perdition; (2 Peter 2:1)
a strange.

J. N. Darby Translation

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Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortunef for the workers of iniquity?

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "what is strange." see Isa. 28.21.

W. Kelly Translation

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[Is there] not destruction to the wicked,{HR}And a strange [dream] to the workers of iniquity?