Job 36:21
Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity; for, after your misery, you have begun to follow this.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Do not prolong the night, even if people rise on their behalf.
22Behold, God is exalted in his strength, and there is no one like him among the law-givers.
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is there that is like Job, who drinks up derision as if it were water,
Daniel 3:16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to king Nebuchadnezzar, “It is not right for us to obey you in this matter.
Matthew 5:29And if your right eye causes you to sin, root it out and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body be cast into Hell.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples: “If anyone is willing to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Hebrews 11:25choosing to be afflicted with the people of God, rather than to have the pleasantness of sin for a time,
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 →