Job 36:18
For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
19Will thy cry avail, [that thou be] not in distress, Or all the forces of [thy] strength?
Cross References
Job 33:24Then [God] is gracious unto him, and saith, 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, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all they that take refuge in him. Psalm 3 A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
Psalms 49:7None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him;
Isaiah 14:6that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
Matthew 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Romans 2:5but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for 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 →