3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
Even 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.
But 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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world, are the two fatal rocks on which multitudes split; against these Job protests he was always careful to stand upon his guard. I. Against the lusts of the flesh. He not only kept himself clear from adultery, from defiling his neighbour’s wives (Job 31:9), but from all lewdness with any women whatsoever. He kept no concubine, no mistress, but was inv…
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