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Job 36:8
8People who do wrong things may suffer in prison. Chains may hold their legs so that they cannot move.
Job 36:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
- New International Version (NIV)But if people are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction,
- English Standard Version (ESV)And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction,
- New King James Version (NKJV)And if they are bound in fetters, Held in the cords of affliction,
Context of Job 36:8
6He does not allow wicked people to continue to live. But he is always fair to those who are poor and weak. 7He takes care of righteous people. He gives them authority to rule like kings. He gives them honour for ever. People who do wrong things may suffer in prison. Chains may hold their legs so that they cannot move. 9When that happens, God shows them what they have done. He shows them their sins. They have done wrong things because they are proud. 10He tells them this to warn them. They must turn away from wicked things.
Read all of Job 36Job 36:8 word by word
וְאִם־אֲסוּרִ֥ים בַּזִּקִּ֑ים יִ֝לָּכְד֗וּן בְּחַבְלֵי־עֹֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 36:8
- Job 13:27You tie my feet with chains. You watch me carefully wherever I go. You put marks on my feet.
- Job 19:6But you should realize that God has caused all my troubles. He is the one who has caught me in his trap.
- Job 33:18He keeps people safe from death, so that they do not go to their graves.
- Psalms 18:5Death was tying me up with ropes, to pull me into the deep hole of the grave.
- Psalms 107:10Some people sat in a completely dark place. Iron chains held them as prisoners, and they were very sad.
- Psalms 116:3The danger of death was very near to me. I became afraid of the deep hole of death. I was very sad and upset.
- Lamentations 3:9On every road that I go along, he has put big rocks in my way. I cannot go past them.
- Proverbs 5:22The sins of a wicked person will be the trap that catches him. They will hold him like strong ropes.
Commentaries on Job 36:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8And if they be bound in fetters - These are means which God uses, not of punishment, but of correction.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8And if they be bound in fetters - That is, if the righteous are thrown into prison, and are subjected to oppressions and trials, or if they are chained down, as it were, on a bed of pain, or crushed by heavy calamities, the eye of God is still upon them. Their sufferings should not be regarded either as proof that they are hypocrites, or that God is regardless of them, and is indifferent whether people are good or evil. The true solution of the difficulty…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
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-108-10. 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.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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