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הֲלֹא־אֵ֥יד לְעַוָּ֑ל וְ֝נֵ֗כֶר לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃ Contextual Introduction Job 31:3 forms part of Job’s final defense—a solemn oath of innocence. In this chapter, Job articulates a series of conditional statements that, if proven false, would justify divine punishment. Verse 3 reflects Job’s moral theology: that calamity and estrangement are the proper lot of the wicked. He poses this not as a mere observation but as a rhetorical question with an expected affirmative answer. Grammatically, this verse demonstrates how Biblical Hebrew uses interrogative particles, parallelism, and poetic terseness to convey theological certainty.… Learn Hebrew