Job 36:11
If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
World English Bible Classic
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
10He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
12But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:30When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your God and listen to his voice.
Job 11:13“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
Job 22:21“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
Job 42:12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
Proverbs 1:33But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”
Isaiah 1:19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
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 →