Job 36:21
Take heed, turn not thine eyes to iniquity! For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Long not thou for that night To which nations are taken away from their place.
22Behold, God is exalted in his power: Who is a teacher like him?
Cross References
Job 34:7Where is the man like Job, Who drinketh impiety like water;
Psalms 66:18If I had meditated wickedness in my heart, The Lord would not have heard me:
Daniel 3:16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter.
Matthew 5:29And if thy right eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee that one of thy members should perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one chooseth to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Hebrews 11:25choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin 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 →