Job 36:18
Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
17But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
19Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
Cross References
Job 33:24Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Psalms 2:12Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, though his anger burn but a little. Blessed are all who have their trust in him.
Psalms 49:7None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,
Isaiah 14:6He that smote the peoples in wrath with a relentless stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted unsparingly.
Matthew 3:7But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Romans 2:5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in [the] day of wrath and revelation of [the] righteous judgment of God,
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 →