The Pulpit Commentary on Job 31:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Is not destruction to the wicked? The inheritance of the wicked is "destruction"—ruin both of soul and body. This is what I should have to expect if I yielded myself to the bondage of lust and concupiscence.

And a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? The rare word neker ( גכר), translated here by "strange punishment," seems to mean "alienation from God"—being turned from God's friend into his enemy (comp.

Buxtorf, 'Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum,' who explains גכר by "alienatio;" and the comment of Schultens on Job 31:3, "Necer, a Deo alienatio").

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