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Job 36:8
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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 be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction,
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 bonds [of adversity], And held by cords of affliction,
"And if they are bound in shackles, And are caught in the snares of misery,
If they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions,
And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction,
And if they are bound in fetters,And are caught in the cords of affliction,
And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
But when people are prisoners of suffering and pain,
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 chains, then they go down through destruction to poverty.
But if people are bound in chains, suffering for what they have done,
"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,
But yf they be layed in preson and cheynes, or bounde with the bondes of pouerte:
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,
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:
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.
And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of affliction;
And if thei ben in chaynes, and ben boundun with the roopis of pouert,
And if they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions;
And if [they are] bound in fetters, [and] are held in cords of affliction;
And if they are bound in fetters, Held in the cords of affliction,
If they are bound in chains and caught up in a web of trouble,
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,
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,
And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,
"And if they are bound in fetters, And are caught in the cords of affliction,
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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
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and the Hori at Se‘ir, their mountain, all the way to Eil-Pa'ran by the desert.
When Ya‘akov saw them, he said, "This is God's camp," and called that place Machanayim [two camps]. Haftarah Vayetze: Hoshea (Hosea) 12:13(12)–14:10(9) (A); 11:7–12:12(11) (S) B'rit Hadashah suggested reading for Parashah Vayetze: Yochanan (John) 1:43–51 Ya‘akov sent messengers ahead of him to ‘Esav his brother toward the land of Se‘ir, the country of Edom, with these instructions: "Here is what you are to say to my lord ‘Esav: ‘Your servant Ya‘akov says, "I have been living with Lavan and have stayed until now. I have cattle, donkeys and flocks, and male and female servants. I am sending to tell this news to my lord, in order to win your favor." '" The messengers returned to Ya‘akov saying, "We went to your brother ‘Esav, and he is coming to meet you; with him are four hundred men." Ya‘akov became greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people, flocks, cattle and camels with him into two camps, saying, "If ‘Esav comes to the one camp and attacks it, at least the camp that is left will escape." Then Ya‘akov said, "God of my father Avraham and God of my father Yitz'chak, Adonai , who told me, ‘Return to your country and your kinsmen, and I will do you good': I'm not worthy of all the love and faithfulness you have shown your servant, since I crossed the Yarden with only my staff. But now I have become two camps. Please! Rescue me from my brother ‘Esav! I'm afraid of him, afraid he'll come and attack me, without regard for mothers or children. You said, ‘I will certainly do you good and make your descendants as numerous as the grains of sand by the sea, which are so many they can't be counted.'" (ii) He stayed there that night; then he chose from among his possessions the following as a present for ‘Esav his brother: two hundred female goats and twenty males, two hundred female sheep and twenty males, thirty milk-camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten colts. He turned them over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Cross over in front of me, and keep a space between each drove and the next one." He instructed the servant in front, "When ‘Esav my brother meets you and asks you, ‘Whose servant are you? Where are you going? And whose animals are these?' then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Ya‘akov, and they are a present he has sent to my lord ‘Esav; and Ya‘akov himself is just behind us.'" He also instructed the second servant, and the third, and all that followed the droves, "When you encounter ‘Esav, you are to speak to him in the same way, and you are to add, ‘And there, just behind us, is your servant Ya‘akov.'" For he said, "I will appease him first with the present that goes ahead of me; then, after that, I will see him myself — and maybe he will be friendly toward me." So the present crossed over ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp. He got up that night, took his two wives, his two slave-girls, and his eleven children, and forded the Yabok. He took them and sent them across the stream, then sent his possessions across; and Ya‘akov was left alone. Then some man wrestled with him until daybreak. When he saw that he did not defeat Ya‘akov, he struck Ya‘akov's hip socket, so that his hip was dislocated while wrestling with him. The man said, "Let me go, because it's daybreak." But Ya‘akov replied, "I won't let you go unless you bless me." The man asked, "What is your name?" and he answered, "Ya‘akov." Then the man said, "From now on, you will no longer be called Ya‘akov, but Isra'el; because you have shown your strength to both God and men and have prevailed." Ya‘akov asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he answered, "Why are you asking about my name?" and blessed him there. (iii) Ya‘akov called the place P'ni-El [face of God], "Because I have seen God face to face, yet my life is spared." As the sun rose upon him he went on past P'ni-El, limping at the hip. This is why, to this day, the people of Isra'el do not eat the thigh muscle that passes along the hip socket — because the man struck Ya‘akov's hip at its socket.
This is the genealogy of ‘Esav (that is, Edom).
‘Esav chose Kena‘ani women as his wives: ‘Adah the daughter of Eilon the Hitti; Oholivamah the daughter of ‘Anah the daughter of Tziv‘on the Hivi;
For their possessions had become too great for them to live together, and the countryside through which they were traveling couldn't support so much livestock.
These were the descendants of ‘Esav (that is, Edom), and these were their chieftains.
(vii) These were the descendants of Se‘ir the Hori, the local inhabitants: Lotan, Shoval, Tziv‘on, ‘Anah,
and don't get into disputes with them; for I am not going to give you any of their land, no, not even enough for one foot to stand on; inasmuch as I have given Mount Se‘ir to ‘Esav as his possession.
I gave to Yitz'chak Ya‘akov and ‘Esav. To ‘Esav I gave Mount Se‘ir as his possession, but Ya‘akov and his children went down into Egypt.
Some 500 of them who were descendants of Shim‘on went to Mount Se‘ir under the leadership of P'latyah, Ne‘aryah, Refayah and Uzi'el the sons of Yish‘i.
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 ×ת××× ×¢× × "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.
