New Living Translation
Job 36:8
8If they are bound in chains and caught up in a web of trouble,
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 does not let the wicked live but gives justice to the afflicted. 7He never takes his eyes off the innocent, but he sets them on thrones with kings and exalts them forever. If 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. 10He gets their attention and commands that they turn from evil.
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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 stocks. You examine all my paths. You trace all my footprints.
- Job 19:6But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.
- Job 33:18He protects them from the grave, from crossing over the river of death.
- Psalms 18:5The grave wrapped its ropes around me; death laid a trap in my path.
- Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and deepest gloom, imprisoned in iron chains of misery.
- Psalms 116:3Death wrapped its ropes around me; the terrors of the grave overtook me. I saw only trouble and sorrow.
- Lamentations 3:9He has blocked my way with a high stone wall; he has made my road crooked.
- Proverbs 5:22An evil man is held captive by his own sins; they are ropes that catch and hold him.
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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