Job 36:21
Take heed, turn not thyself to wrong-doing, so that thou wouldst choose this because of [thy] affliction.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Desire then not eagerly the night, when nations pass away in their place.
22Behold, God is exalted by his power: who is an instructer like him?
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is there like Job, who drinketh scorning like water,
Psalms 66:18If I had looked on wickedness with my heart, the Lord would not have heard;
Daniel 3:16Then answered Shadrach, Meshach, and 'Abed-nego, and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee a word 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 →