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Job 31:3–4
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Job 31:3
3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?
Job 31:4
4Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
4*Doeth not he see my wayes, and count all my steps?
- 2.Chron. 16.9. iob 32.21. pro. 5.21. and 15.3.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 31:3
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
destruction
Ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or the calamity and loss produced by destroying.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Foreign; belonging to another country. Wonderful; causing surprise; exciting curiosity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
punishment
Any pain or suffering inflicted on a person for a crime or offense, by the authority to which the offender is subject, either by the constitution of God or of civil society.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Persons who work, labor, or perform deeds.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Wickedness, unrighteousness, injustice, or a particular sin.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 31:4
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To account or reckon.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Movements or paces of the feet; footsteps, courses, degrees, or stages in going.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
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Open the full verse study22There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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Open the full verse study3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
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Open the full verse study1BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
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Open the full verse study9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
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Open the full verse study21For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall 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.
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Open the full verse study7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
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Open the full verse study13¶ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
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Open the full verse study27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
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Open the full verse study29The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
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Open the full verse study15It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
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Open the full verse study23But 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.
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Open the full verse study18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
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Open the full verse study22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
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Open the full verse study21For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
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Open the full verse study9For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
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Open the full verse study21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
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Open the full verse study16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
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Open the full verse study19Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
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Open the full verse study3The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
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Open the full verse study17For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
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Open the full verse study1O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
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Open the full verse study13And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
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Open the full verse study13Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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Open the full verse study21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
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Open the full verse study48Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
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