Job 36:21
Take thou heede: looke not to iniquitie: for thou hast chosen it rather then affliction.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Be not carefull in the night, howe he destroyeth the people out of their place.
22Beholde, God exalteth by his power: what teacher is like him?
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is like Iob, that drinketh scornfulnesse like water?
Psalms 66:18If I regard wickednesse in mine heart, the Lord will not heare me.
Daniel 3:16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the King, O Nebuchad-nezzar, we are not carefull to answere thee in this matter.
Matthew 5:29Wherefore if thy right eye cause thee to offend, plucke it out, and cast it from thee: for better it is for thee, that one of thy members perish, then that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 16:24Iesus then saide to his disciples, If any man will follow me, let him forsake himselfe: and take vp his crosse, and follow me.
Hebrews 11:25And chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, then to enioy the pleasures of sinnes 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 →