Job 36:21
Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
22Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
Psalms 66:18If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
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 more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Hebrews 11:25choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
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 →