If you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
Job 36:21 - New Revised Standard Version Beware! Do not turn to iniquity; because of that you have been tried by affliction. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. Common English Bible Take care; don’t turn to evil because you’ve chosen it over affliction. Catholic Public Domain Version Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity; for, after your misery, you have begun to follow this. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery. |
If you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.
And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,
“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.
You hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
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,
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.
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.
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God's will, than to suffer for doing evil.