Job 36:23
Who has instructed him what to do? Who can say to him ‘You have done wrong’?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
In Context
22Look how much power God has! What teacher is like him?
24Instead you should praise him for what he has done, as people have done in song.
Cross References
Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Job 34:10So listen to me, you men of understanding! It's impossible for God to do evil and the Almighty to do wrong.
Job 34:13Who put him in charge of the earth? Who gave him the responsibility for all the world?
Isaiah 40:13Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or taught him what to do as his counselor?
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.
Romans 9:14So what should we conclude? That God was unjust? Certainly not!
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 →