Job 31:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲלֹא־אֵ֥יד לְעַוָּ֑ל וְ֝נֵ֗כֶר לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃

Transliteration

hălōʾ-ʾêd to-ʿawwāl and-nēker to-pōʿălê ʾāwen

Grammar Details

• *hălōʾ*: interrogative particle with negative - is not
• *ʾêd*: noun, masculine singular - calamity/disaster
• *ʿawwāl*: noun, masculine singular - unjust one/unrighteous person
• *nēker*: noun, masculine singular - disaster/alienation
• *pōʿălê*: noun, masculine plural construct - doers of/workers of
• *ʾāwen*: noun, masculine singular - wickedness/iniquity

Word Meanings

• *ʾêd*: calamity/destruction/disaster
• *ʿawwāl*: unjust one/unrighteous/evildoer
• *nēker*: disaster/alienation/estrangement
• *pōʿălê ʾāwen*: workers of iniquity/those who do evil

Referenced Verses

• Job 21:30 : 30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
• Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
• Ps 55:23 : 23 But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.
• Ps 73:18 : 18 Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
• Prov 1:27 : 27 When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
• Prov 10:29 : 29 The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
• Prov 21:15 : 15 It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
• Isa 28:21 : 21 For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
• Matt 7:13 : 13 Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby.
• Rom 9:22 : 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:
• 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 {G1063} When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
• 2 Thess 1:9 : 9 who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
• 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
• Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like {G5125} manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.