11 If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.
11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
11 If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
11 If they obey and serve him, they'll have a good, long life on easy street.
11 If they obey and serve Him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
11 "If they listen and obey God, they will be blessed with prosperity throughout their lives. All their years will be pleasant.
12 But if they obey not, they shall perish
12 But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
12 But if they disobey, they'll be cut down in their prime and never know the first thing about life.
12 But if they do not obey, They shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.
12 But if they refuse to listen to him, they will cross over the river of death, dying from lack of understanding.
(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.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 36:11
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.