Job 36:21
Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery. For this thou hast begun to follow after misery... Eliu charges Job, that notwithstanding his misery, he does not fear God as he ought: but in his judgment, falls into iniquity.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.
22Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers.
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Daniel 3:16Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, answered, and said to king Nabuchodonosor: We have no occasion to answer thee concerning this matter.
Matthew 5:29And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than thy whole body be cast into hell. Scandalize thee... That is, if it be a stumblingblock, or occasion of sin to thee. By which we are taught to fly the immediate occasions of sin, though they be as dear to us, or as necessary as a hand or an eye.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Hebrews 11:25Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God than to have the pleasure 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 →