Job 36:11
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Job 36:11 in other translations
| BSB | If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness. |
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| WEB | If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. |
| ASV | If they hearken and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures. |
| YLT | If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness. |
| DARBY | If they hearken and serve him, they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. |
| BBE | If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure. |
| Webster | If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. |
What does Job 36:11 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
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 36:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 36:11
- Jeremiah 7:23
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
- Isaiah 1:19
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
- Jeremiah 26:13
Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
- Deuteronomy 4:30
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
- Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
- Job 22:23
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
- James 5:5
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
- Job 22:21
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
- Revelation 18:7
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
- Job 11:13-19
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: …
- Job 42:12
So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
- Romans 6:17
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
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Context
- 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 36:12
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Job 36:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si oyeren, y le sirvieren, acabarán sus días en bien, y sus años en deleites. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | S’ils écoutent et le servent, ils accompliront leurs jours dans la prospérité et leurs années dans les choses agréables de la vie; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn sie hören und sich unterwerfen, so werden sie ihre Tage in Wohlfahrt verbringen und ihre Jahre in Annehmlichkeiten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si audierint et observaverint, complebunt dies suos in bono, et annos suos in gloria: |