Job 36:18

But there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, 1 By reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

In Context

17There is a deep gulf and a rushing stream beneath it, 1 And thy table came down full of fatness. 1 Judgment shall not fail from the righteous; 1

19Let not thy mind willingly turn thee aside 1 From the petition of the feeble that are in distress. 1

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Cross References

Job 33:24He will support him, that he should not perish, 1 And will restore his body as fresh plaster upon a wall; 1 And he will fill his bones with marrow. 1

Psalms 2:12Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, 1 And ye should perish from the righteous way: 1 Whensoever his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, 1 Blessed are all they that trust in him.

Psalms 49:7Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: 1 And I will testify to thee: 1 I am God, thy God. 1

Isaiah 14:6Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet.

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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