Job 36:9
Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
Job 36:9 in other translations
| BSB | then He tells them their deeds and how arrogantly they have transgressed. |
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| WEB | then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. |
| ASV | Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. |
| YLT | Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty, |
| DARBY | Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased. |
| BBE | Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride. |
| Webster | Then he showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. |
What does Job 36:9 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
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 36:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 36:9
- 1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
- Job 15:25
For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
- Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
- Ezekiel 18:28-31
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? 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?
- Romans 5:20
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
- 1 Timothy 1:15
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
- Lamentations 3:39-40
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
- Psalms 94:12
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;
- Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
- Isaiah 59:12
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
- 2 Chronicles 33:11-13
Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.
- Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
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Context
- 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 36:10
He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
Job 36:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El les dará á conocer la obra de ellos, y que prevalecieron sus rebeliones. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il leur montre ce qu’ils ont fait, et leurs transgressions, parce qu’elles sont devenues grandes; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | dann macht er ihnen kund ihr Tun und ihre Übertretungen, daß sie sich trotzig gebärdeten; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | indicabit eis opera eorum, et scelera eorum, quia violenti fuerunt. |