Job 36:11
9 then He tells them their deeds and how arrogantly they have transgressed.
10 He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.
If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
12 But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
13 The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
- KJV
- If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
- WEB
- If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
- ASV
- If they hearken and serve [him], They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
- DARBY
- If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
- BLB
- If they do hear and serve, they will complete their days in good, and their years in pleasantness.
- ÅB
- Om de da hører og tjener ham, så får de leve sine dager i lykke og sine år i herlighet og glede.
- OTB
- Hvis de lytter og tjener Ham,
vil de tilbringe sine dager i velstand
og sine år i lykke. - B1930
- Om de da hører og tjener ham, så får de leve sine dager i lykke og sine år i herlighet og glede.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 7:23
but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:19
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
Read in contextJeremiah 26:13
So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:30
When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
Read in contextHebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
Read in contextJob 22:23
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
Read in contextJames 5:5
You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
Read in contextJob 22:21
Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.
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