Job 36:11
If they hearken and serve [him], they will spend their days in happiness, and their years in pleasures.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
In Context
10And he openeth thus their ear to correction, and saith that they should return from wrong-doing.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:30When thou art in tribulation, and all these things have overtaken thee, in the latter end of days: then wilt thou return to the Lord thy God, and be obedient unto his voice.
Job 11:13If thou truly direct [aright] thy heart, and spread out thy hands toward him: —
Job 22:21Do but become acquainted with him, and be at peace: thereby will happiness come unto thee.
Job 42:12And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
Proverbs 1:33But he that hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from the dread of evil.
Isaiah 1:19If ye be willing and obey, the best of the land shall ye eat;
Matthew Henry on Job 36:6-15
5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom. 6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor. 7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted. 8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; 9 Then he showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. 10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and… Read the whole commentary →