Job 36:17

And thou art full of the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold on them.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

In Context

16Yea, He hath allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table is full of fatness;

18For beware of wrath, lest thou be led away by thy sufficiency; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

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Cross References

Job 16:5I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would assuage your grief.

Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

Job 34:36Would that Job were tried unto the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

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 →

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