Christian Standard Bible
Job 36:11
11If they listen and serve him, they will end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
Job 36:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
- New International Version (NIV)If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.
- English Standard Version (ESV)If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
- New King James Version (NKJV)If they obey and serve Him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
Context of Job 36:11
9God tells them what they have done and how arrogantly they have transgressed. 10He opens their ears to correction and tells them to repent from iniquity. If they listen and serve him, they will end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness. 12But if they do not listen, they will cross the river of death and die without knowledge. 13Those who have a godless heart harbor anger; even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.
Read all of Job 36Job 36:11 word by word
אִֽם־יִשְׁמְע֗וּ וְֽיַ֫עֲבֹ֥דוּ יְכַלּ֣וּ יְמֵיהֶ֣ם בַּטּ֑וֹב וּ֝שְׁנֵיהֶ֗ם בַּנְּעִימִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 36:11
- Job 22:21Come to terms with God and be at peace; in this way good will come to you.
- Deuteronomy 4:30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, in the future you will return to the Lord your God and obey him.
- Jeremiah 7:23However, I did give them this command: ‘Obey me, and then I will be your God, and you will be my people. Follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.’
- Jeremiah 26:13So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the Lord your God so that he might relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against you.
- Romans 6:17But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over,
- Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going.
- Job 11:13As for you, if you redirect your heart and spread out your hands to him in prayer —
- Job 21:11They let their little ones run around like lambs; their children skip about,
- Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tent
- Job 42:12So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2Everything is the same for everyone: There is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so also it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who takes an oath, so also for the one who fears an oath.
- James 5:5You have lived luxuriously on the earth and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
- Revelation 18:7As much as she glorified herself and indulged her sensual and excessive ways, give her that much torment and grief. For she says in her heart, “I sit as a queen; I am not a widow, and I will never see grief.”
Commentaries on Job 36:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11If they obey and serve him - There may appear in the course of Providence to be some exceptions to this general rule; but it is most true, that this is literally or spiritually fulfilled to all the genuine followers of God. Every man is happy, in whatsoever circumstances, whose heart is unreservedly dedicated to his Maker.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11If they obey and serve him - That is, if, as the result of their afflictions, they repent of their sins, seek his mercy, and serve him in time to come, they shall be prospered still. The design of affliction, Elihu says, is, not to cut them off, but to bring them to repentance. This sentiment he had advanced and illustrated before at greater length; see the notes at Job 33:23-28. The object of all this is, doubtless, to assure Job that he should not…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-14Verses 5-14 Elihu here shows that God acts as righteous Governor. He is always ready to defend those that are injured. If our eye is ever toward God in duty, his eye will be ever upon us in mercy, and, when we are at the lowest, will not overlook us. God intends, when he afflicts us, to discover past sins to us, and to bring them to our remembrance. Also, to dispose our hearts to be taught: affliction makes people willing to learn, through the grace of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity: This is a true biblical principle of dedication to God (repentance) (see 11:13–19; 22:21–25; Deuteronomy 4:30; Jeremiah 7:23; 26:13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. serve--that is, worship; as in Is 19:23. God is to be supplied (compare Is 1:19, 20).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 36
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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