English Standard Version
Job 36:11
11If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)If they obey and serve Him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“If they listen and obey God, they will be blessed with prosperity throughout their lives. All their years will be pleasant.
Context of Job 36:11
9then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly. 10He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity. If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness. 12But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge. 13"The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
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 22:21"Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.
- Deuteronomy 4:30When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice.
- Jeremiah 7:23But this command I gave them: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'
- Jeremiah 26:13Now therefore mend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you.
- Romans 6:17But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
- Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
- Job 11:13"If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
- Job 21:11They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.
- Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents,
- Job 42:12And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.
- James 5:5You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
- Revelation 18:7As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.'
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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