Job 36:18
But be careful that your anger doesn't seduce you into mockery; and don't let the size of the ‘bribe’ lead you into sin.
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In Context
17But you are preoccupied with the fate of the wicked; judgment and justice fill your mind.
19Will your cry for help sustain you when troubles come?
Cross References
Job 33:24he will be gracious to them. He will say, ‘Save them from going down into the grave, for I have found a way to free them.’
Psalms 2:12Submit to his son so that he will not become angry and you die suddenly. His anger flares up quickly, but how happy are all those who go to him for protection.
Psalms 49:7but no one can pay to rescue another from death; no one can pay a ransom to God.
Isaiah 14:6You kept on furiously hitting foreign peoples without stopping, and aggressively ruled nations with unrestrained persecution.
Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he said to them, “You vipers' brood! Who warned you to run away from the coming judgment?
Romans 2:5Due to your hard-hearted attitude and your refusal to repent, you're making things far worse for yourself on the day of retribution when God's judgment is demonstrated to be absolutely right.
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 →