Job 36:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Job 35:3

That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

Job 36:10

He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.

Job 36:15

He delivereth the afflicted by his affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.

Job 36:8

And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of affliction;

Job 7:11

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

Psalm 31:6

I hate them that regard lying vanities: But I trust in the LORD.

Psalm 66:18

If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear:

Ezekiel 14:4

Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD Every man of the house of Israel that taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;

Daniel 6:10

And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem;) and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

Matthew 13:21

yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a while; and when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway he stumbleth.

Matthew 16:24

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Hebrews 11:25

choosing rather to be evil entreated with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.