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Job 36:8
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If they are bound in chains and caught up in a web of trouble,
And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of affliction;
And if they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions;
If people are bound in chains, or if trouble, like ropes, ties them up,
But if they are bound in chains, and held captive by the cords of affliction,
And if [they are] bound in fetters, [and] are held in cords of affliction;
If they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions,
"And if they are bound in bonds [of adversity], And held by cords of affliction,
And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction,
And if thei ben in chaynes, and ben boundun with the roopis of pouert,
And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
But when people are prisoners of suffering and pain,
And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of affliction;
And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,
if, then, they are bound in chains, held in oppressive cords,
And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
So if people are punished, if they are tied with chains and ropes, they did something wrong.
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
And if they bee bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction:
If they are tied up in chains and caught in the ropes of trouble,
And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,
And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction,
And if they be bound in chains, then they go down through destruction to poverty.
But if people are bound in chains, suffering for what they have done,
But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,
And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:
And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,
But if they be layde in chaynes, or bounde with the bondes of trouble,
But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.
If people are bound with chainsand trapped by the cords of affliction,
If they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions,
"And if they are tied up with fetters, if they are caught in the cords of misery,
And if they are bound in chains, or caught in cords of affliction,
And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,
But yf they be layed in preson and cheynes, or bounde with the bondes of pouerte:
"And if they are bound in shackles, And are caught in the snares of misery,
And if they are bound in fetters, Held in the cords of affliction,
"And if they are bound in fetters, And are caught in the cords of affliction,
And if they are bound in fetters,And are caught in the cords of affliction,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
if: Job 13:27, Job 19:6, Job 33:18, Job 33:19, Psalms 18:5, Psalms 107:10, Psalms 116:3, Lamentations 3:9
cords: Proverbs 5:22
Reciprocal: Genesis 42:21 - they said 2 Samuel 22:6 - sorrows 2 Chronicles 33:11 - the Lord Job 13:23 - make me Job 33:23 - to Job 36:13 - bindeth Psalms 107:14 - brake Amos 4:9 - yet Luke 15:18 - I have
Cross-References
And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And if [they be] bound in fetters,.... Not the wicked, as the Targum, but the righteous spoken of in Job 36:7, with which this is closely connected; and this is not to be understood of righteous kings on the throne in particular, or their special favourites, but of the righteous in general; and not in a literal sense, of their bonds and imprisonment for religion and righteousness sake, which is sometimes their lot; but in a figurative sense, of afflictions, as chastenings and corrections for sin, as appears by the next clause; and the design is to obviate an objection, and to show that the eye of God is upon them, and his heart towards them; and they are not the less objects of his love and delight, of his value and esteem, care and protection, though they are afflicted by him, and, as it may seem, used with some severity; seeing he has gracious ends and designs in all this, which are suggested in the following verses;
[and] be holden in cords of affliction; righteous men are not exempt from afflictions; the afflictions of the righteous are many, according to divine appointment, the covenant of grace, the declaration of God, the constant experience of good men, it being the way in which they are all led, and must enter into the kingdom; and the metaphor here used shows that afflictions are sometimes heavy upon them, like fetters and chains, and those made heavy by the hand of God pressing them sore, Lamentations 3:7; no affliction is joyous, but grievous and heavy in itself; it is indeed comparatively light when viewed with the weight of glory; and God can make a heavy affliction light with his presence, and the discoveries of his love; but they are heavy to the flesh, as Job felt his to be, Job 6:2; and, like fetters and cords, they cannot free themselves from them, or loose them, until it is the pleasure of God to take them off; and moreover by these they are sometimes held and restrained from going into more or greater sins, which is one use of them: as they are with afflictions hedged about that they cannot come out, any more than a person bound fast in a prison; so they are hedged up with thorns that they cannot go out after their lovers, Lamentations 3:7 Hosea 2:6. Some render the phrase, "cords of poverty" l; it is oftentimes the case of righteous persons to be poor, and to be sadly hampered with poverty, and out of which, by all that they can do, cannot extricate themselves; and sometimes they fall into it, and are held in it, after they have enjoyed much worldly prosperity, which was the case of Job. Mr. Broughton renders it, cords of anguish; and indeed the word for "cords" is used of the pains of a woman in travail, who has then great anguish and trouble; and anguish on various accounts lays hold on the righteous, and they are holden thereby, and cannot relieve themselves, Psalms 119:143; and yet this is all in mercy, and to answer some good ends and purposes, as follow.
l בתבלי עני "funibus paupertatis", Mercerus, Drusius; "funibus inopiae", Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And if they be bound in fetters - That is, if the righteous are thrown into prison, and are subjected to oppressions and trials, or if they are chained down, as it were, on a bed of pain, or crushed by heavy calamities, the eye of God is still upon them. Their sufferings should not be regarded either as proof that they are hypocrites, or that God is regardless of them, and is indifferent whether people are good or evil. The true solution of the difficulty was, that God was then accomplishing purposes of discipline, and that happy results would follow if they would receive affliction in a proper manner.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 36:8. And if they be bound in fetters — These are means which God uses, not of punishment, but of correction.
