New Living Translation
Job 36:10
10He gets their attention and commands that they turn from 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.
- New International Version (NIV)He makes them listen to correction and commands them to repent of their evil.
- 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.
Context of Job 36:10
8If they are bound in chains and caught up in a web of trouble, 9he shows them the reason. He shows them their sins of pride. He gets their attention and commands that they turn from evil. 11“If they listen and obey God, they will be blessed with prosperity throughout their lives. All their years will be pleasant. 12But if they refuse to listen to him, they will cross over the river of death, dying from lack of understanding.
Read all of Job 36Job 36:10 word by word
וַיִּ֣גֶל אָ֭זְנָם לַמּוּסָ֑ר וַ֝יֹּ֗אמֶר כִּֽי־יְשֻׁב֥וּן מֵאָֽוֶן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 36:10
- Job 36:15But by means of their suffering, he rescues those who suffer. For he gets their attention through adversity.
- Job 33:16He whispers in their ears and terrifies them with warnings.
- Psalms 40:6You take no delight in sacrifices or offerings. Now that you have made me listen, I finally understand— you don’t require burnt offerings or sin offerings.
- Isaiah 48:8“Yes, I will tell you of things that are entirely new, things you never heard of before. For I know so well what traitors you are. You have been rebels from birth.
- Isaiah 50:5The Sovereign Lord has spoken to me, and I have listened. I have not rebelled or turned away.
- Acts 16:14One of them was Lydia from Thyatira, a merchant of expensive purple cloth, who worshiped God. As she listened to us, the Lord opened her heart, and she accepted what Paul was saying.
- Proverbs 1:22“How long, you simpletons, will you insist on being simpleminded? How long will you mockers relish your mocking? How long will you fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 8:4“I call to you, to all of you! I raise my voice to all people.
- Proverbs 9:4“Come in with me,” she urges the simple. To those who lack good judgment, she says,
- Isaiah 1:16Wash yourselves and be clean! Get your sins out of my sight. Give up your evil ways.
- Isaiah 55:6Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near.
- Jeremiah 4:3This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: “Plow up the hard ground of your hearts! Do not waste your good seed among thorns.
- Jeremiah 7:3This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “‘Even now, if you quit your evil ways, I will let you stay in your own land.
- Ezekiel 18:30“Therefore, I will judge each of you, O people of Israel, according to your actions, says the Sovereign Lord. Repent, and turn from your sins. Don’t let them destroy you!
- Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sins have brought you down.
- Matthew 3:8Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.
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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