That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?
Job 36:21 - Revised Version 1885 Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou 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 thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?
He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.
He delivereth the afflicted by his affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.
And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of affliction;
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
choosing rather to be evil entreated with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.