Job 36:18
Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
17But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.
19Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
Cross References
Job 33:24to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
Psalms 2:12Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
Psalms 49:7No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.
Isaiah 14:6It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, revelation, and God’s righteous judgment.
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 →