Job 36:21

¹⁹ Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?

²⁰ Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.

Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.

²² Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?

²³ Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ‘You have done wrong’?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.
KJV: Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
WEB: Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
ASV: Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
DARBY: Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
BLB: Take heed not to turn to iniquity, for upon this you have been chosen by affliction.

ÅB: Vokt deg, vend deg ikke til synd! For det har du mere lyst til enn til å lide.
OTB: Vær forsiktig med å vende deg til det onde,
som du synes å foretrekke fremfor lidelse.
B1930: Vokt dig, vend dig ikke til synd! For det har du mere lyst til enn til å lide.

Psalms 66:18
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
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Hebrews 11:25
He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
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1 Peter 3:17
For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
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Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
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Daniel 3:16–18
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
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Daniel 6:10
Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
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Job 35:3
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
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Matthew 5:29–30
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
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