that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
Job 36:21 - Revised Standard Version Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than 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. |
that 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.
Thou hatest those who pay regard to vain 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 man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him myself because of the multitude of his idols,
When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem; and he got down upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his 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 right, if that should be God's will, than for doing wrong.