New King James Version
Job 34:30
30That the hypocrite should not reign, Lest the people be ensnared.
Job 34:30 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
- New International Version (NIV)to keep the godless from ruling, from laying snares for the people.
- English Standard Version (ESV)that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people.
- New Living Translation (NLT)He prevents the godless from ruling so they cannot be a snare to the people.
Context of Job 34:30
28So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him; For He hears the cry of the afflicted. 29When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him, Whether it is against a nation or a man alone?— That the hypocrite should not reign, Lest the people be ensnared. 31“For has anyone said to God, ‘I have borne chastening; I will offend no more; 32Teach me what I do not see; If I have done iniquity, I will do no more’?
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מִ֭מְּלֹךְ אָדָ֥ם חָנֵ֗ף מִמֹּ֥קְשֵׁי עָֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 34:30
- Job 34:21“For His eyes are on the ways of man, And He sees all his steps.
- 1 Kings 12:28Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!”
- 2 Kings 21:9But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
- Psalms 12:8The wicked prowl on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
- Ecclesiastes 9:18Wisdom is better than weapons of war; But one sinner destroys much good.”
- Hosea 5:11Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, Because he willingly walked by human precept.
- Hosea 13:11I gave you a king in My anger, And took him away in My wrath.
- Micah 6:16For the statutes of Omri are kept; All the works of Ahab’s house are done; And you walk in their counsels, That I may make you a desolation, And your inhabitants a hissing. Therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.”
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
- Revelation 13:3And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
Commentaries on Job 34:30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30That the hypocrite reign not - The Vulgate translates, Who causes a wicked man to reign because of the sins of the people. This was precisely the defense which Hegiage, the oppressive ruler of the Babylonian Irak, under the caliph Abdul Malec, made when he found the people in a state of insurrection. See at the end of the chapter, Job 34:37; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 30That the hypocrite reign not - All this is done to prevent wicked men from ruling over the people. The remarks of Elihu had had respect much to princes and kings, and he had shown that however great they were, they were in the hands of God, and were wholly at his disposal. He “now” says that the design of his dealings with them was to prevent their oppressing their fellow-men. The general scope of the remarks of Elihu is, that God is the universal…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-30Verses 16-30 Elihu appeals directly to Job himself. Could he suppose that God was like those earthly princes, who hate right, who are unfit to rule, and prove the scourges of mankind? It is daring presumption to condemn God's proceedings, as Job had done by his discontents. Elihu suggests divers considerations to Job, to produce in him high thoughts of God, and so to persuade him to submit. Job had often wished to plead his cause before God. Elihu asks…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3030. Ensnared--into sin (1Ki 12:28, 30). Or rather, "enthralled by further oppression," Job 34:26-28.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 34
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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