Job 36:21
Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
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22Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
Psalms 66:18I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:
Daniel 3:16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answering Nebuchadnezzar the king, said, There is no need for us to give you an answer to this question.
Matthew 5:29And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.
Hebrews 11:25Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;
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 →