Job 36:17

And you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, || Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And He also moved you from a narrow place || [To] a broad place—no constriction under it, || And the sitting beyond of your table has been full of fatness.

18Lest He move you with a stroke, || And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.

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Cross References

Job 16:5I might harden you with my mouth, || And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

Job 34:7Who [is] a man like Job? He drinks scoffing like water,

Job 34:36My Father! Let Job be tried—to victory, || Because of answers for men of iniquity,

Romans 1:32who the righteous judgment of God having known—that those practicing such things are worthy of death—not only do them, but also have delight with those practicing them.

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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