For you ask, ‘What will it profit you?’ and ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’
Job 36:21 - Tree of Life Version Be careful, do not turn to iniquity; for you have chosen this 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. |
For you ask, ‘What will it profit you?’ and ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’
And He opens their ear to instruction, and commands that they turn from evil.
He delivers the afflicted by his affliction and opens their ear in oppression.
But if they are bound in chains, and held captive by cords of affliction,
“So I will not keep silent; I will speak in the distress of my spirit, I will complain in bitterness of soul.
Into Your hand I commit my spirit. You have redeemed me, Adonai, God of truth.
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Therefore speak to them, and say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Every man from the house of Israel who sets up idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity right before his face, and then comes to the prophet—I, Adonai, will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,
Yet he has no root himself but lasts only a short while; and when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
Then Yeshua said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to follow after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.
Instead he chose to suffer mistreatment along with the people of God, rather than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.
For it is better to suffer for doing good (if it is God’s will) than for doing evil.