Job 36:21
Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.
22Lo, God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
Psalms 66:18Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear.
Daniel 3:16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter.
Matthew 5:29But if thy right eye be a snare to thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Hebrews 11:25choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have [the] temporary pleasure 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 →