Job 36:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

Job 36:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Job 36:15
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: …
Proverbs 8:4-5
Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. …
Isaiah 48:17
Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Atheism Attributes of God Believer Children of God Christian Contrition Conviction

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-14)

Elihu, being to speak on God’s behalf, and particularly to ascribe righteousness to his Maker, here shows that the disposals of divine Providence are all, not only according to the eternal counsels of his will, but according to the eternal rules of equity. God acts as a righteous governor, for, I. He does not think it below him to take notice of the meanest of his subjects, nor does poverty or obs…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

8-10. If they be afflicted, it is no proof that they are hypocrites, as the friends maintain, or that God disregards them, and is indifferent whether men are good or bad, as Job asserts: God is thereby “disciplining them,” and “showing them their sins,” and if they bow in a right spirit under God’s visiting hand, the greatest blessings ensue.