7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

Other Translations of Job 36:7

New International Version

7 He does not take his eyes off the righteous; he enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.

English Standard Version

7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

The Message

7 He never takes his eyes off the righteous; he honors them lavishly, promotes them endlessly.

New King James Version

7 He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; But they are on the throne with kings, For He has seated them forever, And they are exalted.

New Living Translation

7 He never takes his eyes off the innocent, but he sets them on thrones with kings and exalts them forever.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 36:7

Commentary on Job 36:5-14

(Read Job 36:5-14)

Elihu here shows that God acts as righteous Governor. He is always ready to defend those that are injured. If our eye is ever toward God in duty, his eye will be ever upon us in mercy, and, when we are at the lowest, will not overlook us. God intends, when he afflicts us, to discover past sins to us, and to bring them to our remembrance. Also, to dispose our hearts to be taught: affliction makes people willing to learn, through the grace of God working with and by it. And further, to deter us from sinning for the future. It is a command, to have no more to do with sin. If we faithfully serve God, we have the promise of the life that now is, and the comforts of it, as far as is for God's glory and our good: and who would desire them any further? We have the possession of inward pleasures, the great peace which those have that love God's law. If the affliction fail in its work, let men expect the furnace to be heated till they are consumed. Those that die without knowledge, die without grace, and are undone for ever. See the nature of hypocrisy; it lies in the heart: that is for the world and the flesh, while perhaps the outside seems to be for God and religion. Whether sinners die in youth, or live long to heap up wrath, their case is dreadful. The souls of the wicked live after death, but it is in everlasting misery.