Job 36:8

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

Cross-reference

Job 36:13 Parallel

In Job 36:13, Elihu contrasts the hypocrites who do not cry out when bound — directly continuing the imagery from verse 8.

Job 13:27 Parallel

In Job 13:27, Job describes being put in stocks — similar to the chains and cords of affliction here. Both depict divine restraint.

Job 19:6 Parallel

Job 19:6 uses net imagery for God's entrapment — parallel to the cords of affliction here. Both describe being caught.

Job 33:19 Related theme

Job 33:19 describes rebuke through pain — similar to affliction here. Both involve suffering as discipline.

Psalm 18:5 Parallel

Psalm 18:5 uses 'cords of Sheol' — directly parallel to the cords of affliction here. Same imagery of being entangled.

Psalm 107:10 describes prisoners in affliction and irons — identical theme to being bound in cords of affliction here.

Psalm 116:3 Related theme

Psalm 116:3 mentions snares of death and pangs of Sheol — parallel to cords of affliction. Both depict distress.

Proverbs 5:22 says the wicked are held in cords of sin — parallel imagery of being bound, though cause differs.

In 2 Chronicles 33:11, Manasseh is literally bound with fetters as divine discipline — the same 'fetters' imagery used here.

In 2 Samuel 22:6, David describes being entangled in 'cords of Sheol' — similar metaphor for distress as the 'cords of affliction' here.

In Psalm 107:14, God breaks the bands of the afflicted — the same 'bands' imagery, showing deliverance from such bondage.