Job 36:8
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
Job 36:8 in other translations
| BSB | And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction, |
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| WEB | If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions, |
| ASV | And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of affliction; |
| YLT | And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction, |
| DARBY | And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction, |
| BBE | And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble, |
| Webster | And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction; |
What does Job 36:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 36:8-10
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
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 36:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 36:8
- Psalms 107:10
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
- Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
- Job 13:27
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
- Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
- Job 19:6
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
- Lamentations 3:9
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
- Job 33:18-19
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:
- Psalms 18:5
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
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Context
- Job 36:7
He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
- Job 36:8
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
- Job 36:9
Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
Job 36:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y si estuvieren prendidos en grillos, y aprisionados en las cuerdas de aflicción, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et si, liés dans les chaînes, ils sont pris dans les cordeaux du malheur, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und wenn sie mit Fesseln gebunden sind, in Stricken des Elends gefangen werden, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et si fuerint in catenis, et vinciantur funibus paupertatis, |