Job 36:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Job 36:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Hebrews 11:25
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
1 Peter 3:17
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Job 35:3
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Matthew 16:24
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 15-23)

Elihu here comes more closely to Job; and, I. He tells him what God would have done for him before this if he had been duly humbled under his affliction. “We all know how ready God is to deliver the poor in his affliction (Job 36:15); he always was so. The poor in spirit, those that are of a broken and contrite heart, he looks upon with tenderness, and, when they are in affliction, is ready to hel…

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

(vv. 21)

21. regard--literally, “turn thyself to.” iniquity--namely, presumptuous speaking against God (Job 34:5, and above, see on Job 36:17, 18). rather than--to bear “affliction” with pious patience. Men think it an alleviation to complain against God, but this is adding sin to sorrow; it is sin, not sorrow, which can really hurt us (contrast He 11:25).