Job 36:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

Job 36:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 107:10
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Psalms 18:5
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Job 19:6
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

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Afflictions and Adversities Atheism Attributes of God Believer Children of God Christian Disciple God

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. 8)

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.