Job 36:17

But, with the plea of a lawless one, thou art full, Plea and sentence, will take fast hold.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16Yea he might even have allured thee—out of the mouth of straitness, [into] a wide space—no narrowness there,—and, the food set down on thy table, should have been full of fatness.

18Because there is wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with a stroke, Then let not, a great ransom, mislead thee.

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Cross References

Job 16:5I could make you determined, by my mouth, and then my lip-solace should restrain you.

Job 34:7What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;

Job 34:36Would that Job might be tested to the uttermost, for replying with the men of iniquity:

Romans 1:32Who, indeed, having acknowledged the righteous sentence of God,—that, they who such things as these do practise, are worthy of death, not only, the same things, are doing, but are even delighting together with them who are practising [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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