Job 36:11
If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
10Thus hath he uncovered their ear to a warning, and said—that they should turn from iniquity.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:30In thy distress, when all these things have found thee out—in the afterpart of the days, thou wilt return unto Yahweh thy God, and wilt hearken to his voice.
Job 11:13If, thou, hast prepared thy heart, and wilt spread forth, unto him, thy hands—
Job 22:21Shew thyself to be one with him—I pray thee—and prosper, thereby, shall there come on thee blessing.
Job 42:12And, Yahweh, blessed the latter end of Job, more than his beginning,—and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
Proverbs 1:33Whereas, he that hearkeneth unto me, shall dwell safely, and be at rest, without dread of misfortune.
Isaiah 1:19If ye be willing—and hearken Of the good of the land, shall ye eat;
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 →