Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

If they hearken and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

New American Standard Bible

“If they hear and serve Him,
They will end their days in prosperity
And their years in pleasures.

King James Version

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Holman Bible

If they serve Him obediently,
they will end their days in prosperity
and their years in happiness.

International Standard Version

If they listen and serve him, they'll finish their lives in prosperity and their years will be pleasant.

American Standard Version

If they hearken and serve him , They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

Amplified


“If they hear and serve Him,
They will end their days in prosperity
And their years in pleasantness and joy.

Bible in Basic English

If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.

Darby Translation

If they hearken and serve him, they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Julia Smith Translation

If they will hear and will serve him, they shall finish their days in good, and their years in delights.

King James 2000

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Lexham Expanded Bible

If they listen and serve [him], they complete their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

Modern King James verseion

If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in blessedness, and their years in pleasures.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If they now will take heed and be obedient, they shall wear out their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure and joy.

NET Bible

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

New Heart English Bible

If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

The Emphasized Bible

If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness;

Webster

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

World English Bible

If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Youngs Literal Translation

If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
and serve
עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

and their years
שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

10 He also opens their ear to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity. 11 If they hearken and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. 12 But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:30

When thou are in tribulation, and all these things have come upon thee, in the latter days thou shall return to LORD thy God, and hearken to his voice.

Job 11:13-19

If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward him,

Job 21:11

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Job 22:21

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace. By this good shall come to thee.

Job 22:23

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shall be built up, thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

Job 42:12

So LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

Ecclesiastes 9:2-3

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous man and to the wicked man, to the good man and to the clean man and to the unclean man, to him who sacrifices and to him who does not sacrifice, as is the good man,

Isaiah 1:19

If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.

Jeremiah 7:23

But this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken to my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people. And walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

Jeremiah 26:13

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of LORD your God, and LORD will relent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

Romans 6:17

But thanks to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart a model of doctrine for which ye were delivered.

Hebrews 11:8

By faith Abraham, when called, obeyed to go out to the place that he was going to take for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

James 5:5

Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and were self-indulgent. Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

Revelation 18:7

In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief.

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