Job 36:15
Good News Translation
But God teaches people through suffering and uses distress to open their eyes.

New Revised Standard Version
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.

Contemporary English Version
Hard times and trouble are God's way of getting our attention!

New American Bible
But he saves the afflicted through their affliction, and opens their ears through oppression.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.

delivereth

Job 36:6 But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.

poor.

Job 36:10 He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.

2 Chronicles 12:8 But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.

Context
Elihu Declares God's Justice and Power
14Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate. 15He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.16Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.…
Cross References
Job 5:15
But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

Job 5:17
Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.

Job 15:11
Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.

Job 33:16
Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.

Job 36:8
And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:

Job 36:10
He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.

Job 36:21
Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.

Job 36:14
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