Job 36:18
For beware of wrath, lest thou be led away by thy sufficiency; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
17And thou art full of the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold on them.
19Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, or all the forces of thy strength?
Cross References
Job 33:24Then He is gracious unto him, and saith: 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'
Psalms 2:12Do homage in purity, lest He be angry, and ye perish in the way, when suddenly His wrath is kindled. Happy are all they that take refuge in Him.
Psalms 49:7(49-8) No man can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him —
Isaiah 14:6That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
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 →