If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
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If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
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If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
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If they hearken and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
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Passages linked to Job 36:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 7:23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
- Isaiah 1:19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
- Jeremiah 26:13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; then Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.
- Deuteronomy 4:30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
- Hebrews 11:8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
- Job 22:23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
- James 5:5 You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
- Job 22:21 “Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
- Revelation 18:7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’
- Job 11:13-19 “If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him. If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents. Surely then you will lift up your face without spot; Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear: for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away. Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning. You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety. Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. Yes, many will court your favor.
- Job 42:12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2-3 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath. This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
- Romans 6:17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
- Job 21:11 They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 36:11 If they obey and serve [him], they…
Job 36:11 If they obey and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Ver. 11. If they obey and serve him, they shall, &c.] Heb. they shall finish, they shall spend and end their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure, as Joseph, Job, and some others have done, who lived and died with glory. Howbeit this promise is to be understood with exception of the cross, which yet God both can, and to his will, make profitable and pleasant; as he did to that godly prince who, being asked, How he could so well endure so long and hard imprisonment? answered, That he had therein felt the divine consolations of the martyrs. But,
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Haud facile invenies multis e millibus unum,
Virtutem pretium qui putet esse sui.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain If they obey God’s admonition and command.
If they obey God’s admonition and command.
They shall spend their days in prosperity; they shall be restored to their farmer prosperity, and shall live and die in it. This he speaks according to the tenor of God’s promises, especially in the Old Testament state of the church, and according to the common course and method of God’s providence, which Elihu and other good men had observed.
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Their years in pleasures; abounding in worldly comforts, and being enabled by God to rejoice in them, which is God’s gift, Ecc 3:13, and delighting themselves in God’s love and favour to them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain If they obey and serve him,.... That is, God,…
If they obey and serve him,.... That is, God, to whom so many things are ascribed in the preceding verses; and who only is to be obeyed and served in a religious way, with the obedience of faith and love, in all his commands and ordinances. But here not so much obedience to his word, his law or Gospel, as to his rod is intended: "if they hear", &c. (q); hear the rod and him that has appointed it; hearken to his reproving, instructing, and commanding voice, in affliction; to his calls, cautions, and admonitions thereby given; and act according to them; humble themselves under the mighty hand of God, and return from iniquity:
they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures; which intimates, that those to whom afflictions are sanctified, and they obedient under them, when recovered out of them shall enjoy long life; not only live many days, but years, and those in great prosperity and pleasure; be blessed with much temporal prosperity, which lies in riches and wealth, as this word is rendered in Job 21:13; and in bodily health, which is a considerable part of outward prosperity; but more especially prosperity of soul may be intended, see Jo3 1:2; which is enjoyed when a man is favoured with the discoveries of the love of God to him; with applications of pardoning grace and mercy; when grace is in lively exercise in him, and he has a spiritual appetite for the good word of God, and is fruitful in every good work: and so pleasures do not so much design corporeal pleasures, though ever so innocent and lawful; for though they may at proper times be indulged unto, yet a man's days and years are not to be spent in them; but rather spiritual pleasures, which are had in views of the wonderful love of God in Christ; in the enjoyment of the gracious presence of God, and communion with him; and which the people of God are favoured with, in his house and ordinances, ways and worship: and when those years are gone, endless pleasures at God's right hand, and in his presence, will follow.
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(q) "si audierint et fecerint", Codurcus.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. If they obey and serve him] There…
Verse 11. If they obey and serve him] There may appear in the course of Providence to be some exceptions to this general rule; but it is most true, that this is literally or spiritually fulfilled to all the genuine followers of God. Every man is happy, in whatsoever circumstances, whose heart is unreservedly dedicated to his Maker.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 36:11-12. If they obey — God’s admonition and…
Job 36:11-12. If they obey — God’s admonition and command; they shall spend their days in prosperity — They shall be restored to their former prosperity, and shall live and die in it. This he says according to the tenor of God’s promises, especially in the Old Testament state of the church, and according to the common course of God’s providence in those days, which Elihu and other good men had observed; and their years in pleasures — Abounding in worldly comforts, and delighting themselves in the love and favour of God thereby manifested to them. But if they obey not — If the righteous, spoken of Job 36:7, opposed to the hypocrites, mentioned in the next verse, be disobedient to the divine admonitions; they shall perish by the sword — They shall be cut off by some extraordinary or remarkable judgment; and they shall die without knowledge — Shall die in or for their inadvertency or folly, or, because they are without knowledge, as בבלי דעת, bibli dagnath, may be rendered, because they are ignorant, or brutish, and will not learn the lessons which God so plainly teaches them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain If they obey and serve him - That is,…
If they obey and serve him - That is, if, as the result of their afflictions, they repent of their sins, seek his mercy, and serve him in time to come, they shall be prospered still. The design of affliction, Elihu says, is, not to cut them off, but to bring them to repentance. This sentiment he had advanced and illustrated before at greater length; see the notes at Job 33:23-28. The object of all this is, doubtless, to assure Job that he should not regard his calamities either as proof that he had never understood religion - as his friends maintained; or that God was severe, and did not regard those that loved and obeyed him - as Job had seemed to suppose; but that there was something in his life and conduct which made discipline necessary, and that if he would repcnt of that, he would find returning prosperity, and end his days in happiness and peace.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain serve--that is, worship; as in Isa 19:23. God is…
serve--that is, worship; as in Isa 19:23. God is to be supplied (compare Isa 1:19-20).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Prosperity — Literally, good, which is a more…
11. Prosperity — Literally, good, which is a more comprehensive term. Job, in describing the pious man’s destiny, (Job_21:25,) declared that such an one had not enjoyed the good, literally, “had not eaten in the good.” Elihu now replies that the servants of God spend their days in the good, since such service is necessarily a well-spring of the true good.
Pleasures — The original of this word, as also in Psa_16:6, literally signifies “pleasantnesses,” (plural form,) and, like the Latin amoena, points to joyous surroundings. Light “within one’s own clear breast” shines beyond and makes “bright day.” (For illustration, see Milton’s “Comus,” lines 360-390.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11, 12. Such afflictions, though graciously meant, may have…
11, 12. Such afflictions, though graciously meant, may have different issues according as men receive them. On the expression “the sword” in Job_36:12 see ch. Job_33:18.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) They shall spend their days in prosperity.—It is,…
(11) They shall spend their days in prosperity.—It is, perhaps, not more easy to reconcile this teaching of Elihu’s with the realities of actual fact than it is the notions of Job’s friends as to direct retribution in life.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain If they obey and serve him, they shall spend…
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. (comp. Job_12:13-19 Jer_7:23 Jer_26:13) Under the old covenant, prosperity was promised to the righteous, and even to the repentant, frequently, and in the most definite terms. Under the new, when any such promise is made, it is carefully guarded; (Mar_10:30) while in many passages the promise is of an opposite character the righteous are told to expect tribulations and persecutions. (Joh_16:33 Act_14:22 2Ti_3:12 Heb_12:1-11 1Pe_4:12, 1Pe_4:13, etc.)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 36:11 If they listen and obey God, they will…
36:11 If they listen and obey God, they will be blessed: This is a valid biblical principle of repentance (see 11:13-19; 22:21-25; Deut 4:30; Jer 7:23; 26:13).
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