Job 36:21
Take heed. Do not turn to iniquity, for thou have fixed on this because of affliction.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
22Behold, God does loftily in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water,
Psalms 66:18If I regard iniquity in my heart, LORD will not hear.
Daniel 3:16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter.
Matthew 5:29And if thy right eye causes thee to stumble, remove it and cast it from thee, for it is advantageous for thee that one of thy body-parts should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man wants to come behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Hebrews 11:25having chosen rather to be mistreated with the people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin temporarily.
Matthew Henry on Job 36:16-24
15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. 16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness. 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee. 18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. 19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all… Read the whole commentary →