Job 36:21
Beware, do not turn unto iniquity, For, this, thou hast chosen rather than affliction.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place.
22Lo, GOD, exalteth himself by his strength, Who like him doth teach?
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;
Psalms 66:18If, iniquity, I had cared for in my heart, My Lord, had not heard me!
Daniel 3:16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered, and said to the king: O Nebuchadnezzar! we are not accounting it needful, concerning this, to answer thee.
Matthew 5:29And, if, thy right eye, is causing thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee,—for it profiteth thee, that, one of thy members, should perish, and not, thy whole body, be cast into gehenna.
Matthew 16:24Then, Jesus said unto his disciples—If any one intendeth, after me, to come, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and be following me;
Hebrews 11:25Rather choosing—to be jointly suffering ill-treatment with the people of God, than, for a season, to be having, sins enjoyment;
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 →