Job 21:9
Good News Translation
God does not bring disaster on their homes; they never have to live in terror.

New Revised Standard Version
Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

Contemporary English Version
They have no worries at home, and God never punishes them.

New American Bible
Their homes are safe, without fear, and the rod of God is not upon them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.

safe from fear.

Job 15:21 The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.

Job 18:11 Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.

Psalm 73:19 How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.

Isaiah 57:19-21 I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him. . . .

the rod

Job 9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.

Psalm 73:5 They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.

Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
8Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children's children in their sight. 9Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.10Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.…
Cross References
Job 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:

Job 21:10
Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.

Psalm 73:5
They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.

Psalm 89:32
I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with stripes.

Job 21:8
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