Job 36:10-11

36:10 And he reveals ¹  this ²  for correction,

and says that they must turn ³  from evil.

36:11 If they obey and serve him,

they live out their days in prosperity

and their years in pleasantness. ⁴ 

[36:10]  ¹ tn The idiom once again is “he uncovers their ear.”

[36:10]  ² tn The revelation is in the preceding verse, and so a pronoun must be added to make the reference clear.

[36:10]  ³ tn The verb שׁוּב (shuv, “to turn; to return”) is one of the two major words in the OT for “repent” – to return from evil. Here the imperfect should be obligatory – they must do it.

[36:11]  ⁴ tc Some commentators delete this last line for metrical considerations. But there is no textual evidence for the deletion; it is simply the attempt by some to make the meter rigid.