New International Version
Job 36:10
10He makes them listen to correction and commands them to repent of their evil.
Job 36:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He also opens their ear to instruction, And commands that they turn from iniquity.
- New Living Translation (NLT)He gets their attention and commands that they turn from evil.
Context of Job 36:10
8But if people are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction, 9he tells them what they have done— that they have sinned arrogantly. He makes them listen to correction and commands them to repent of their evil. 11If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment. 12But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
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וַיִּ֣גֶל אָ֭זְנָם לַמּוּסָ֑ר וַ֝יֹּ֗אמֶר כִּֽי־יְשֻׁב֥וּן מֵאָֽוֶן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 36:10
- Job 36:15But those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction.
- Job 33:16he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,
- Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and offering you did not desire— but my ears you have opened— burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.
- Isaiah 48:8You have neither heard nor understood; from of old your ears have not been open. Well do I know how treacherous you are; you were called a rebel from birth.
- Isaiah 50:5The Sovereign Lord has opened my ears; I have not been rebellious, I have not turned away.
- Acts 16:14One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.
- Proverbs 1:22“How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 8:4“To you, O people, I call out; I raise my voice to all mankind.
- Proverbs 9:4“Let all who are simple come to my house!” To those who have no sense she says,
- Isaiah 1:16Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.
- Isaiah 55:6Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
- Jeremiah 4:3This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns.
- Jeremiah 7:3This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place.
- Ezekiel 18:30“Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.
- Hosea 14:1Return, Israel, to the Lord your God. Your sins have been your downfall!
- Matthew 3:8Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
Commentaries on Job 36:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10He openeth also their ear - He gives them to understand the reason why they are thus corrected, and commands them to return from those iniquities which have induced him to visit them with afflictions and distresses.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10He openeth also their ear to discipline - To teaching; or he makes them willing to learn the lessons which their afflictions are designed to teach; coral). See the notes at Job 33:16.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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