Job 36:18
Lest He move you with a stroke, || And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.
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In Context
19Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
Cross References
Job 33:24Then He favors him and says, || Ransom him from going down to the pit, || I have found an atonement.
Psalms 2:12Kiss the Chosen One [[ or Son]], lest He is angry, || And you perish [from] the way, || When His anger burns but a little, || O the blessedness of all trusting in Him!
Psalms 49:7A brother ransoms no one at all, || He does not give to God his atonement.
Isaiah 14:6He who is striking peoples in wrath, || A striking without intermission, || He who is ruling nations in anger, || Pursuing without restraint!
Matthew 3:7And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his immersion, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who showed you to flee from the coming wrath?
Romans 2:5But according to your hardness and impenitent heart, you treasure up wrath to yourself in [the] day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
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 →