Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 36:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
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Role in This Section
Job 36:9 advances the thought unit with the words “Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.” Elihu develops the next stated step through “Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded” as part of Elihu Links Affliction with Disclosure and Response.
Read It With
- Job 36:5–36:14
Read Job 36:9 with 36:5–36:14. Read alone, “Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Elihu says God upholds the poor, establishes the righteous, uses bonds to show transgression, opens ears to discipline, and gives prosperity or death according to response.
Why It Needs Context
Job 36:9 depends on 36:5–36:14; isolating “Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Elihu and “Elihu Links Affliction with Disclosure and Response.”
Read Job 36:5–14 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 36:5–36:14 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Elihu Links Affliction with Disclosure and Response.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 5. 5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
Verse 6. 6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
Verse 7. 7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
Verse 8. 8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
Verse 9. 9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
Verse 10. 10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
Verse 11. 11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Verse 12. 12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Verse 13. 13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
Verse 14. 14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 36:5–36:14 — Elihu Links Affliction with Disclosure and ResponseSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 36:5–36:14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 36:5–36:14
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