Job 36:8
Good News Translation
But if people are bound in chains, suffering for what they have done,

New Revised Standard Version
And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,

Contemporary English Version
But when people are prisoners of suffering and pain, *

New American Bible
If they are bound with fetters, held fast by bonds of affliction,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Job 13:27 Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:

Job 19:6 At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.

Job 33:18,19 Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword. . . .

Psalm 18:5 The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.

Psalm 107:10 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.

Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Lamentations 3:9 Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

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Proverbs 5:22 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

Context
Elihu Declares God's Justice and Power
7He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted. 8And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:9He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent.…
Cross References
Job 36:15
He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.

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

Psalm 107:10
Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.

Psalm 119:61
The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

Psalm 149:8
To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron.

Job 36:7
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