Job 36:10
He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
Job 36:10 in other translations
| BSB | He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity. |
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| WEB | He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity. |
| ASV | He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity. |
| YLT | And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity. |
| DARBY | And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. |
| BBE | Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil. |
| Webster | He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. |
What does Job 36:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 36:8-10
8-10. 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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 36:5-14
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…
Job 36:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 36:10
- Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
- Job 36:15
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
- Matthew 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
- 2 Kings 17:13
Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
- Job 33:16-23
Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: …
- Isaiah 1:16-20
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: …
- Isaiah 50:5
The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
- Proverbs 8:4-5
Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
- Isaiah 48:17
Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
- Psalms 40:6
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
- Ezekiel 18:30-31
Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
- Isaiah 48:8
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
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Context
- Job 36:9
Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
- Job 36:10
He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
- Job 36:11
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Job 36:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Despierta además el oído de ellos para la corrección, y díce les que se conviertan de la iniquidad. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il ouvre leurs oreilles à la discipline, et leur dit de revenir de l’iniquité. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und er öffnet ihr Ohr der Zucht und spricht, daß sie umkehren sollen vom Frevel. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Revelabit quoque aurem eorum, ut corripiat: et loquetur, ut revertantur ab iniquitate. |