God’s Word Translation
Job 21:30
30On the day of disaster the wicked person is spared. On the day of ⌞God’s⌟ anger he is rescued.
Job 21:30 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
- New International Version (NIV)that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity, that they are delivered from the day of wrath?
- English Standard Version (ESV)that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
- New King James Version (NKJV)For the wicked are reserved for the day of doom; They shall be brought out on the day of wrath.
Context of Job 21:30
28because you ask, ‘Where is the house of the influential person? Where is the tent where wicked people live?’ 29Haven’t you asked travelers? But you didn’t pay attention to their directions. On the day of disaster the wicked person is spared. On the day of ⌞God’s⌟ anger he is rescued. 31Who will tell him to his face how he lived? Who will pay him back for what he did? 32He is carried to the cemetery, and his grave is guarded.
Read all of Job 21Job 21:30 word by word
כִּ֤י לְי֣וֹם אֵ֭יד יֵחָ֣שֶׂךְ רָ֑ע לְי֖וֹם עֲבָר֣וֹת יוּבָֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 21:30
- Proverbs 16:4The Lord has made everything for his own purpose, even wicked people for the day of trouble.
- Nahum 1:2God does not tolerate rivals. The Lord takes revenge. The Lord takes revenge and is full of anger. The Lord takes revenge against his enemies and holds a grudge against his foes.
- 2 Peter 2:9Since the Lord did all this, he knows how to rescue godly people when they are tested. He also knows how to hold immoral people for punishment on the day of judgment.
- 2 Peter 3:7By God’s word, the present heaven and earth are designated to be burned. They are being kept until the day ungodly people will be judged and destroyed.
- Jude 1:13Their shame is like the foam on the wild waves of the sea. They are wandering stars for whom gloomy darkness is kept forever.
- Job 20:28A flood will sweep away his house, a flash flood on the day of his anger.
- Psalms 110:5The Lord is at your right side. He will crush kings on the day of his anger.
- Proverbs 11:4Riches are of no help on the day of fury, but righteousness saves from death.
- Zephaniah 1:15That day will be a day of overflowing fury, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and overcast skies,
- Romans 2:5Since you are stubborn and don’t want to change the way you think and act, you are adding to the anger that God will have against you on that day when God vents his anger. At that time God will reveal that his decisions are fair.
- Revelation 6:17because the frightening day of their anger has come, and who is able to endure it?”
Commentaries on Job 21:30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? - Though every one can tell that he has seen the wicked in prosperity, and even spend a long life in it; yet this is no proof that God loves him, or that he shall enjoy a prosperous lot in the next world. There, he shall meet with the day of wrath. There, the wicked shall be punished, and the just rewarded.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? - He is not punished, as you maintain, at once. He is “kept” with a view to future punishment; and though calamity will certainly overtake him at some time, yet it is not immediate. This was Job‘s doctrine in opposition to theirs, and in this he was undoubtedly correct. The only wonder is, that they had not at all seen it sooner, and that it should have been necessary to make this appeal to the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 27-34Verses 27-34 Job opposes the opinion of his friends, That the wicked are sure to fall into visible and remarkable ruin, and none but the wicked; upon which principle they condemned Job as wicked. Turn to whom you will, you will find that the punishment of sinners is designed more for the other world than for this, Jude 1:14, 15. The sinner is here supposed to live in a great deal of power. The sinner shall have a splendid funeral: a poor thing for any man…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3030. Their testimony (referring perhaps to those who had visited the region where Abraham who enjoyed a revelation then lived) is that "the wicked is (now) spared (reserved) against the day of destruction (hereafter)." The Hebrew does not so well agree with [Umbreit] "in the day of destruction." Job does not deny sinners' future punishment, but their punishment in this life. They have their "good things" now. Hereafter, their lot, and that of the godly…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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