Job 36:11
If they hear and serve, || They complete their days in good, || And their years in pleasantness.
Literal Standard Version
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 uncovers their ear for instruction, || And commands that they turn back from iniquity.
12And if they do not listen, || They pass away by the dart, || And expire without knowledge.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:30In the distress of yours, when all these things have found you in the latter end of the days, and you have turned back to your God YHWH and have listened to His voice—
Job 11:13If you have prepared your heart, || And have spread out your hands to Him,
Job 22:21Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace, || Thereby your increase [is] good.
Job 42:12And YHWH has blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he has fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and one thousand pairs of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.
Proverbs 1:33And whoever is listening to me dwells confidently, || And [is] quiet from fear of evil!”
Isaiah 1:19If you are willing, and have listened, || The good of the land you consume,
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 →