Job 36:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

He also opens their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.

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  • Job 33:16-23 : 16 Then He opens the ears of men and seals their instruction, 17 That He may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man. 18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. 19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain; 20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones, that were not seen, stick out. 22 Yes, his soul draws near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers. 23 If there is a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man his uprightness:
  • Job 36:15 : 15 He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.
  • Prov 8:4-5 : 4 To you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of men. 5 O simple ones, understand wisdom; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.
  • Isa 1:16-20 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
  • Isa 48:17 : 17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go.
  • Isa 50:5 : 5 The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away back.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Matt 3:8 : 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance:
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  • 2 Kgs 17:13 : 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
  • Acts 16:14 : 14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened, so she heeded the things spoken by Paul.
  • Acts 17:30 : 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
  • Jer 4:3-4 : 3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your unplowed ground, and sow not among thorns. 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.
  • Jer 7:3-7 : 3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will allow you to dwell in this place. 4 Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor; 6 If you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your harm; 7 Then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
  • Ezek 18:30-31 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?
  • Hos 14:1 : 1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.
  • Isa 48:8 : 8 Yes, you did not hear; yes, you did not know; yes, from that time your ear was not opened: for I knew you would deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
  • Prov 9:4-6 : 4 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mixed. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
  • Ps 40:6 : 6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; my ears You have opened: burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
  • Prov 1:22-23 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my spirit upon you, I will make my words known to you.

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  • Job 36:8-9
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    8And if they are bound in chains, and held in cords of affliction;

    9Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

  • Job 36:11-12
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    11If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

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

  • 16Then He opens the ears of men and seals their instruction,

  • 12Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • 15He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.

  • 71%

    31The ear that hears the reproof of life abides among the wise.

    32He who refuses instruction despises his own soul, but he who hears reproof gains understanding.

  • Job 37:12-13
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    12And it turns around by his counsel, so that they may do whatever he commands them on the face of the world in the earth.

    13He causes it to come, whether for correction, for his land, or for mercy.

  • 16If now you have understanding, hear this; listen to the voice of my words.

  • 26For his God instructs him in right judgment, his God teaches him.

  • 9He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

  • 17He is in the way of life who keeps instruction, but he who refuses reproof errs.

  • 6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • 12Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise rebuker to an obedient ear.

  • Prov 8:32-33
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    32Now therefore listen to me, O children, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

    33Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.

  • 20My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

  • 17Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge.

  • Job 34:26-27
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    26He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others,

    27Because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways.

  • 24They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

  • 2So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

  • 1My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:

  • 23Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my spirit upon you, I will make my words known to you.

  • 21And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.

  • 3Perhaps they will listen and each man will turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the evil I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

  • Prov 3:11-12
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    11My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD; nor be weary of his correction:

    12For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.

  • 17Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty:

  • 7I said, Surely you will fear me, you will receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, however I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their deeds.

  • 18Poverty and shame shall be to him who refuses instruction, but he who regards reproof shall be honored.

  • 10He that chastises the nations, shall he not correct? he that teaches man knowledge, shall he not know?

  • 32That which I do not see, teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

  • 20Seeing many things, but you do not observe; opening the ears, but he does not hear.

  • 1He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

  • 23But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

  • 29You testified against them, that You might bring them back to Your law. Yet they acted proudly and did not heed Your commandments but sinned against Your judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them. And they shrugged their shoulders, stiffened their necks, and would not hear.

  • 1Listen, you children, to the instruction of a father, and pay attention to gain understanding.

  • 5The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away back.

  • 10If it does evil in my sight, so that it does not obey my voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

  • 10Correction is grievous to him who forsakes the way, and he who hates reproof shall die.

  • 8Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He will teach sinners in the way.

  • 33And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

  • 10Will they not teach you, and tell you, and speak words from their heart?

  • 13Therefore now amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

  • 8And you shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.

  • 1A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.