Job 36:21
Take heed, regard not iniquity; 1 for this hast thou chosen rather than oni. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Desire not halailah (the night), 1 when people are cut off in their place. 1
22See, El exalted by His ko'ach. 1 Who is a moreh (teacher) like Him? 1
Cross References
Job 34:7What gever is like Iyov, 1 who drinketh up the scorn [of his friends] like mayim? 1
Psalms 66:18If I regard avon (iniquity, sin) in my lev, 1 Adonoi will not hear me; 1
Daniel 3:16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nevukhadnetzar, we are not needful to answer thee in this matter.
Matthew 5:29And if your right eye causes you to commit chet (sin), tear it out and throw it from you, for it is better for you that one of your evarim (members) be lost and not your whole basar (body, flesh) be thrown into Gehinnom.
Matthew 16:24Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, If anyone wishes to come after me, let him turn in hinnazrut (self-denial), and take up his etz shel mesiros nefesh (tree of self-sacrifice), and follow me.
Hebrews 11:25Choosing rather to endure redifah (persecution) with the Am Hashem than to enjoy the ephemeral ta'anugot (pleasures) of averos 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 →