New English Translation
Job 36:11
11If they obey and serve him, they live out 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.
- 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
9then he reveals to them what they have done, and their transgressions, that they were behaving proudly. 10And he reveals this for correction, and says that they must turn from evil. If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness. 12But if they refuse to listen, they pass over the river of death, and expire without knowledge. 13The godless at heart nourish anger, they do not cry out even 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 36:11
- Job 22:21“Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.
- Deuteronomy 4:30In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey him
- Jeremiah 7:23I also explicitly commanded them: “Obey me. If you do, I will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you and things will go well with you.”
- Jeremiah 26:13But correct the way you have been living and do what is right. Obey the Lord your God. If you do, the Lord will forgo destroying you as he threatened he would.
- Romans 6:17But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,
- Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.
- Job 11:13“As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,
- Job 21:11They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.
- Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,
- Job 42:12So the Lord blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2Everyone shares the same fate – the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.
- James 5:5You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
- Revelation 18:7As much as she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself, ‘I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience 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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