Job 36:18
Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man : neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
17Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and judgment thou shalt recover.
19Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.
Cross References
Job 33:24He shall have mercy on him, and shall say : Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption : I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.
Psalms 2:12Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way.
Psalms 49:7They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,
Isaiah 14:6That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.
Matthew 3:7And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?
Romans 2:5But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just 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 →