God’s Word Translation
Job 36:8
8However, if righteous people are bound in chains and tangled in ropes of misery,
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 doesn’t allow the wicked person to live. He grants justice to those who are oppressed. 7He doesn’t take his eyes off righteous people. He seats them on thrones with kings to honor them forever. However, if righteous people are bound in chains and tangled in ropes of misery, 9he tells them what they’ve done wrong and that they’ve behaved arrogantly. 10He makes them listen to his warning and orders them to turn away from wrong.
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וְאִם־אֲסוּרִ֥ים בַּזִּקִּ֑ים יִ֝לָּכְד֗וּן בְּחַבְלֵי־עֹֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 36:8
- Job 13:27You put my feet in shackles. You follow my trail by engraving marks on the soles of my feet.
- Job 19:6then I want you to know that God has wronged me and surrounded me with his net.
- Job 33:18He keeps their souls from the pit and their lives from crossing the River ⌞of Death⌟.
- Psalms 18:5The ropes of the grave had surrounded me. The clutches of death had confronted me.
- Psalms 107:10Those who lived in the dark, in death’s shadow were prisoners in misery. They were held in iron chains
- Psalms 116:3The ropes of death became tangled around me. The horrors of the grave took hold of me. I experienced pain and agony.
- Lamentations 3:9He has blocked my way with cut stones and made my paths crooked.
- Proverbs 5:22A wicked person will be trapped by his own wrongs, and he will be caught in the ropes of his own sin.
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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