Job 36:21
Watch out that you don't turn to evil! For it's because of this that you are being tested through suffering.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Do not long for the night when people are suddenly taken away.
22Look how much power God has! What teacher is like him?
Cross References
Job 34:7Has there ever been a man like Job with such a thirst for ridiculing others?
Psalms 66:18If I had focused my mind on evil, the Lord would not have listened to me.
Daniel 3:16“King Nebuchadnezzar, we don't need to defend ourselves before you over this,” Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied.
Matthew 5:29If your right eye leads you to sin, then tear it out and throw it away, because it's better to lose one part of your body than to have your whole body thrown into the fire of Gehenna.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus told his disciples, “If you want to be a follower of mine, you must deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow me.
Hebrews 11:25Instead he chose to share in the sufferings of God's people rather than to enjoy the temporary 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 →