Job 36:21
Be careful that you do not turn to sin 1 because you are being tested by suffering so that you will stay away from sinning. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
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, to commit sin against others, 1 when peoples are cut off in their place. 1
22See, God is exalted in his power; 1 who is a teacher like him? 1
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is like Job, 1 who drinks up mockery like water, 1
Psalms 66:18If I had seen sin within my heart, 1 the Lord would not have listened to me. 1
Daniel 3:16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
Matthew 5:29If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your body parts should perish than that your whole body should be thrown into hell.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Hebrews 11:25Instead, he chose to suffer with the people of God, rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a while.
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 →