Job 36:18

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

Noyes Bible

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

17But if thou art full of the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice shall take hold of thee.

19Will he esteem thy riches? No! neither thy gold, nor all the abundance of thy wealth.

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Cross References

Job 33:24Then will God be gracious to him, and say, “Save him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.”

Psalms 2:12Kiss the son, lest He be angry, and ye perish in your way; For soon shall his wrath be kindled. Happy are all they who seek refuge in him.

Psalms 49:7No one can redeem his brother from death, Nor give a ransom for him to God,

Isaiah 14:6That smote the people in anger, With a continual stroke, That lorded it over the nations in wrath With unremitted oppression.

Matthew 3:7But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he said to them, Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Romans 2:5But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against the day of wrath and of the manifestation 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 →

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