Job 36:8
6 He does not keep the wicked alive, but He grants justice to the afflicted.
7 He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
- KJV
- And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
- WEB
- If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
- ASV
- And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;
- DARBY
- And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
- BLB
- And if they are bound in the fetters, caught in the cords of affliction,
- ÅB
- Og om de blir bundet med lenker og fanget i ulykkens snarer,
- OTB
- Hvis de er bundet i lenker
og fanget i lidelsens bånd, - B1930
- Og om de blir bundet med lenker og fanget i ulykkens snarer,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 107:10
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
Read in contextProverbs 5:22
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Read in contextJob 13:27
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
Read in contextPsalms 116:3
The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
Read in contextJob 19:6
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
Read in contextLamentations 3:9
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Read in contextJob 33:18–19
to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
Read in contextPsalms 18:5
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
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