Job 21:31
New International Version
Who denounces their conduct to their face? Who repays them for what they have done?

New Living Translation
No one criticizes them openly or pays them back for what they have done.

English Standard Version
Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?

Berean Standard Bible
Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?

King James Bible
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

New King James Version
Who condemns his way to his face? And who repays him for what he has done?

New American Standard Bible
“Who confronts him with his actions, And who repays him for what he has done?

NASB 1995
“Who will confront him with his actions, And who will repay him for what he has done?

NASB 1977
“Who will confront him with his actions, And who will repay him for what he has done?

Legacy Standard Bible
Who will declare to his face about his actions, And who will repay him for what he has done?

Amplified Bible
But who will confront him with his actions and rebuke him face to face, And who will repay him for what he has done?

Christian Standard Bible
Who would denounce his behavior to his face? Who would repay him for what he has done?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who would denounce his behavior to his face? Who would repay him for what he has done?

American Standard Version
Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Who is showing him the way, and who is paying him what he did?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done it? who shall recompense him?

Contemporary English Version
No one points out their sin or punishes them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

English Revised Version
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Who will tell him to his face how he lived? Who will pay him back for what he did?

Good News Translation
There is no one to accuse the wicked or pay them back for all they have done.

International Standard Version
Who will expose his conduct to his face? Who will repay him for what he has done

JPS Tanakh 1917
But who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?

Literal Standard Version
Who declares his way to his face? And [for] that which he has done, | Who gives repayment to him?

Majority Standard Bible
Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?

New American Bible
Who will charge him to his face about his conduct, and for what he has done who will repay him?

NET Bible
No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

New Revised Standard Version
Who declares their way to their face, and who repays them for what they have done?

New Heart English Bible
Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

Webster's Bible Translation
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

World English Bible
Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?

Young's Literal Translation
Who doth declare to his face his way? And for that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?

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Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath. 31Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done? 32He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.…

Cross References
Job 21:30
Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

Job 21:32
He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.


Treasury of Scripture

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?

declare

2 Samuel 12:7-12
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; …

1 Kings 21:19-24
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine…

Psalm 50:21
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

repay

Job 21:19
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

Job 41:11
Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

Deuteronomy 7:10
And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

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Job 21
1. Job shows that even in the judgment of man he has reason to be grieved
7. Sometimes the wicked prosper, though they despise God
16. Sometimes their destruction is manifest
21. The happy and unhappy are alike in death
27. The judgment of the wicked is in another world














Verse 31 - Who shall declare his way to his face? rather, Who shall denounce? i.e. Who will be bold enough to tell the rich and powerful man that he is wicked? that his "way," or course of life, is altogether wrong? And who shall repay him what he hath done? Still less will any one be found who will take upon him to attack such a one, to prosecute him in courts or otherwise bring him to condign punishment. Thus, being castigated neither by God nor man, he enjoys complete impunity.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Who
מִֽי־ (mî-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

will denounce
יַגִּ֣יד (yag·gîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous

his behavior
דַּרְכּ֑וֹ (dar·kōw)
Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

to
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

his face?
פָּנָ֣יו (pā·nāw)
Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6440: The face

Who
מִ֣י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

will repay
יְשַׁלֶּם־ (yə·šal·lem-)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7999: To be safe, to be, completed, to be friendly, to reciprocate

him
לֽוֹ׃ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

for what he
וְהֽוּא־ (wə·hū-)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

has done?
עָ֝שָׂ֗ה (‘ā·śāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make


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