Job 36:21
Take heed, regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 in their place.
22Behold, God doeth loftily in His power; who is a teacher like Him?
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Psalms 66:18If I had 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 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 →