Tree of Life Version
Job 36:11
11If they obey and serve, they will end their days in prosperity, and their years in happiness.
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 declares to them their deed that they have transgressed arrogantly. 10And He opens their ear to instruction, and commands that they turn from evil. If they obey and serve, they will end their days in prosperity, and their years in happiness. 12But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword, and die without knowledge. 13“The godless in heart harbor anger, they do not cry for help 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 now with Him and have shalom— in this way prosperity will come to you.
- Deuteronomy 4:30“When you are in distress and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you will return to Adonai your God and listen to His voice.
- Jeremiah 7:23but I explicitly commanded them: ‘Obey My voice and I will be your God to you and you will be My people. Walk in all the ways that I command you that it may go well with you.’
- Jeremiah 26:13So now, mend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of Adonai your God; so Adonai will relent of the calamity that He has pronounced against you.
- Romans 6:17But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching under which you were placed;
- Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he was to receive as an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going.
- Job 11:13“If you devote your heart to Him and spread out your hands to Him,
- Job 21:11They send out their little ones like a flock and their children dance.
- Job 22:23If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; if you remove iniquity far from your tent
- Job 42:12So Adonai blessed Job’s latter days more than at his beginning. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2Everyone shares the same destiny: for the righteous and the wicked; for the good, the ritually clean and the defiled; for one who sacrifices and one who does not sacrifice; as the good person so the sinner; as the one who swears like the one who fears an oath.
- James 5:5You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter.
- Revelation 18:7As she has exalted herself and indulged herself in luxury, so give her the same measure of torment and grief! For in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen— I am no widow; I shall never see 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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