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Job 36:17

But if thou art full of the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice shall take hold of thee.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16He will bring thee also from the jaws of distress To a broad place, where is no straitness; And the provision of thy table shall be full of fatness.

18For if wrath be with him, beware lest he take thee away by his stroke, So that a great ransom shall not save thee!

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Cross References

Job 16:5I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the consolation of my lips should sustain you.

Job 34:7Where is the man like Job, Who drinketh impiety like water;

Job 34:36I desire that Job may be tried to the last, For answering like wicked men.

Romans 1:32who, although knowing the ordinance of God, that they who practise such things deserve death, not only do them themselves, but approve of those who do 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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