He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
God opens the ear to discipline and correction and commands a return from iniquity and sin. Affliction can so discipline and instruct, opening the ear to correction and calling for a turn from wrongdoing. That opening of the ear is a call back to God himself.
That discipline includes affliction and sickness as God's correcting hand to instruct and to make wrongdoing recognized. In the setting of Job 36:8-11, sickness is presented as that correcting hand, intended to lead back to obedience and service.
By this discipline God calls people back to himself into obedience and service. The command to turn from sin is the means by which He restores them to obedience.
In that same setting of verses 8-11, those who then obey and serve God will find prosperity and pleasure following. Obedience and service after correction bring prosperity, while the warning stands alongside it.
God opens the ear to discipline and correction and commands a return from iniquity and sin. Affliction can so discipline and instruct, opening the ear to correction and calling for a turn from wrongdoing. That opening of the ear is a call back to God himself.
That discipline includes affliction and sickness as God's correcting hand to instruct and to make wrongdoing recognized. In the setting of Job 36:8-11, sickness is presented as that correcting hand, intended to lead back to obedience and service.
By this discipline God calls people back to himself into obedience and service. The command to turn from sin is the means by which He restores them to obedience.
In that same setting of verses 8-11, those who then obey and serve God will find prosperity and pleasure following. Obedience and service after correction bring prosperity, while the warning stands alongside it.
Those who refuse to obey and serve will perish.