Job 36:11
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
King James Version
In Context
10He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
12But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:30When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
Job 11:13If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
Job 22:21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Job 42:12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Proverbs 1:33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Isaiah 1:19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall 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 →