Job 36:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ Beware! Do not turn to iniquity; because of that you have been tried by affliction.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Take heed, turn not to iniquity, for this [the iniquity of complaining against God] you have chosen rather than [submission in] affliction.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Common English Bible

²¹ Take care; don’t turn to evil because you’ve chosen it over affliction.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity; for, after your misery, you have begun to follow this.

Job 36:21 Cross References

Hebrews 11:25

choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

Psalm 66:18

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

Matthew 13:21

yet such a person has no root but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away.

Daniel 6:10

Although Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he continued to go to his house, which had windows in its upper room open toward Jerusalem, and to get down on his knees three times a day to pray to his God and praise him, just as he had done previously.

Ezekiel 14:4

Therefore speak to them, and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Any of those of the house of Israel who take their idols into their hearts and place their iniquity as a stumbling block before them and yet come to the prophet, I the Lord will answer those who come with the multitude of their idols,

Job 35:3

If you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

Job 36:8

And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,

Job 36:10

He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.

Job 36:15

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.

Psalm 31:6

You hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.

Job 7:11

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.