Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions,
New American Standard Bible
And are caught in the cords of
King James Version
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
Holman Bible
and trapped by the cords of affliction,
International Standard Version
"If they're bound in chains, caught in ropes of affliction,
American Standard Version
And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;
Amplified
“And if they are bound in bonds [of adversity],
And held by cords of affliction,
Bible in Basic English
And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,
Darby Translation
And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
Julia Smith Translation
And they being bound in fetters shall be taken in the cords of affliction.
King James 2000
And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction;
Lexham Expanded Bible
"And if [they] are tied up with fetters, [if] they are caught in [the] cords of misery,
Modern King James verseion
And if they are bound in chains, and are held in cords of affliction,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But if they be laid in prison and chains, or bound with the bonds of poverty:
NET Bible
But if they are bound in chains, and held captive by the cords of affliction,
New Heart English Bible
If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
The Emphasized Bible
But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,
Webster
And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction;
World English Bible
If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
Youngs Literal Translation
And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,
Themes
Afflictions made beneficial » In convincing us of sin
Cord » Symbolical uses of » Token in mourning
Hearing » The lord opening ears
Prosperity » Who shall prosper
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 36:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Greatness
7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted. 8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions, 9 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 107:10
[even] those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Job 13:27
Thou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet.
Job 19:6
know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net.
Job 33:18-19
He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Psalm 18:5
The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me.
Psalm 116:3
The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Lamentations 3:9
He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.