Job 36:17
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Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
In Context
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Cross References
Job 16:5I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
Job 34:7What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
Job 34:36May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.
Romans 1:32Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.
Matthew Henry on Job 36:16-24
15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. 16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness. 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee. 18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. 19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all… Read the whole commentary →