Job 36:10

God opens their ears to instruction and commands them to turn from iniquity. Affliction is paired with a summons to repent.

Cross-references · 21

• Matt 3:8Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
• Job 36:15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Isa 48:17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
• 2 Kgs 17:13Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
• Prov 8:4–5“To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
• Isa 1:16–20Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
• Isa 50:5The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
• Job 33:16–23Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
• Ps 40:6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
• Jer 4:3–4For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
• Prov 1:22–23“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
• Jer 7:3–7Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
• Hos 14:1Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
• Ezek 18:30–31“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
• Acts 17:30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
• Acts 3:19“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
• Acts 16:14A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
• Isa 48:8Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
• Jas 4:8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• Prov 9:4–6“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

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