Job 21:30

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
wicked	רָ֑ע Ra'	H7451	bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral) · adjective, masculine singular absolute
reserved	יֵחָ֣שֶׂךְ ye.Cha.sekh	H2820	to restrain or (reflex.) refrain · verb, niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
day	לְי֣וֹם le.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
destruction	אֵ֭יד 'eid	H343	oppression · noun, common masculine singular absolute
forth	יוּבָֽלוּ yu.Va.lu	H2986	properly · verb, hophal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
day	לְי֖וֹם le.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
wrath	עֲבָר֣וֹת a.va.Rot	H5678	an outburst of passion · noun, common feminine plural absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
2 Peter 2:9-17 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Job 20:28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Romans 2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgme…
2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perditi…
Psalms 110:5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
Proverbs 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Nahum 1:2 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reservet…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 21:27–end

In these verses, I. Job opposes the opinion of his friends, which he saw they still adhered to, that the wicked are sure to fall into such visible and remarkable ruin as Job had now fallen into, and none but the wicked, upon which principle they condemned Job as a wicked man. "I know your thoughts," says Job (Job 21:27); "I know you will not agree with me; for your judgments are tinctured and biassed by your piques and prejudices against me, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against my comfort and honour: and how can such men be convinced?" Job's friends were ready to say, in answer to his discourse concerning the prosperity of the wicked, "Where is the house of the prince? Job 21…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 21:30

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, shall be reversed (Luk 16:25). Job, by the Spirit, often utters truths which solve the difficulty under which he labored. His afflictions mostly clouded his faith, else he would have seen the solution furnished by his own words. This answers the o…

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John Gill on Job 21:30

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction?.... That is, that they are spared, withheld, restrained, as the word (d) signifies, or kept and preserved from many calamities and distresses, which others are exposed unto; and so are reserved, either unto a time of greater destruction in this life or rather to eternal destruction in the world to come; which is the same with the day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men, when they will be destroyed soul and body, in hell, with an everlasting destruction, as the just demerit of sin; or of that sinful course of life they live, being the broad way which leads to and issues in destruction, and for which there is a day appointed, when it…

Dictionary and topics

Day · A time of judgment called a day of: Destruction — A time of judgment called a day of: Destruction
Fall Of Man, The · Punishment consequent upon: Eternal death — Punishment consequent upon: Eternal death
Judgment · THE GENERAL — THE GENERAL
Judgment, The · Called the: Day of destruction — Called the: Day of destruction

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Job 21:30

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 21:27–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 21:30

John Gill on Job 21:30

Dictionary and topics

Job 21:30

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 21:27–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 21:30

John Gill on Job 21:30

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 21:27-31

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Job 21:28

Rashi on Job 21:30