Job 31:3
Good News Translation
He sends disaster and ruin to those who do wrong.

New Revised Standard Version
Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Contemporary English Version
In fact, God sends disaster on all who sin,

New American Bible
Is it not calamity for the unrighteous, and woe for evildoers?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

destruction

Job 21:30 Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.

Psalm 55:23 But 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, O Lord.

Psalm 73:18 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.

Proverbs 1:27 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:

Proverbs 10:29 The just shall never be moved: but the wicked shall not dwell on the earth.

Proverbs 21:15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity.

Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat.

Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

2 Thessalonians 1:9 Who shall suffer eternal punishment in destruction, from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his power:

2 Peter 2:1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

a strange

Isaiah 28:21 For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of divisions: he shall be angry as in the valley which is in Gabaon: that he may do his work, his strange work: that he may perform his work, his work is strange to him.

Jude 1:7 As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
2For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high? 3Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?4Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?…
Cross References
Numbers 16:30
But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.

Job 18:12
Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.

Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.

Job 21:17
How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?

Job 21:30
Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.

Job 31:23
For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.

Job 34:22
There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity.

Job 31:2
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