Job 36:21
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than affliction.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
In Context
20Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
22Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?
Cross References
Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?
Psalms 66:18If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Daniel 3:16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer you in this matter.
Matthew 5:29And if your right eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 16:24Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Hebrews 11:25Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin 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 →