Job 36:21
Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, || For you have fixed on this || Rather than [on] affliction.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Do not desire the night, || For the going up of peoples in their stead.
22Behold, God sits on high by His power, || Who [is] like Him—a teacher?
Cross References
Job 34:7Who [is] a man like Job? He drinks scoffing like water,
Psalms 66:18Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, || The Lord does not hear.
Daniel 3:16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego have answered, indeed, they are saying to King Nebuchadnezzar, “We have no need concerning this matter to answer you.
Matthew 5:29But if your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast from you, for it is good to you that one of your members may perish, and not your whole body be cast into Gehenna.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wills to come after Me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me,
Hebrews 11:25having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin’s pleasure for a season,
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 →