Parallel Verses

King James Version

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

New American Standard Bible

“If they hear and serve Him,
They will end their days in prosperity
And their years in pleasures.

Holman Bible

If they serve Him obediently,
they will end their days in prosperity
and their years in happiness.

International Standard Version

If they listen and serve him, they'll finish their lives in prosperity and their years will be pleasant.

A Conservative Version

If they hearken and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

American Standard Version

If they hearken and serve him , They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

Amplified


“If they hear and serve Him,
They will end their days in prosperity
And their years in pleasantness and joy.

Bible in Basic English

If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.

Darby Translation

If they hearken and serve him, they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Julia Smith Translation

If they will hear and will serve him, they shall finish their days in good, and their years in delights.

King James 2000

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Lexham Expanded Bible

If they listen and serve [him], they complete their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

Modern King James verseion

If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in blessedness, and their years in pleasures.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If they now will take heed and be obedient, they shall wear out their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure and joy.

NET Bible

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

New Heart English Bible

If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

The Emphasized Bible

If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness;

Webster

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

World English Bible

If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Youngs Literal Translation

If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
and serve
עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

and their years
שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. 11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. 12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:30

When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

Job 11:13-19

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

Job 21:11

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Job 22:21

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

Job 22:23

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Job 42:12

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

Ecclesiastes 9:2-3

All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Isaiah 1:19

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

Jeremiah 7:23

But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

Jeremiah 26:13

Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

Romans 6:17

But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

Hebrews 11:8

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

James 5:5

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Revelation 18:7

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

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