Job 36:11 “If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and…”

Job 36:11

If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

World English Bible

If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

American Standard Version

If they hearken and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

Geneva Bible 1599

If they obey and serue him, they shall end their dayes in prosperity, and their yeres in pleasures.

Darby Translation

If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Young's Literal Translation

If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

Bible in Basic English

If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.

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Cross references

“If”

Jeremiah 7:23 Jeremiah 26:13 Deuteronomy 4:30 Hebrews 11:8 Job 22:21 Romans 6:17

Jeremiah 7:23 · BSB

but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

Jeremiah 26:13 · BSB

So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.

Deuteronomy 4:30 · BSB

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

Hebrews 11:8 · BSB

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

Job 22:21 · BSB

Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.

Romans 6:17 · BSB

But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.

“spend”

Job 22:23 James 5:5 Revelation 18:7 Job 11:13–19 Job 42:12 Job 21:11

Job 22:23 · BSB

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents

James 5:5 · BSB

You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

Revelation 18:7 · BSB

As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’

Job 11:13–19 · BSB

As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

Job 42:12 · BSB

So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Job 21:11 · BSB

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

Also

Isaiah 1:19

Isaiah 1:19 · BSB

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.

12But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

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