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Job 36:16 KJV
Job · chapter 36 · verse 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.Job 36:16 · King James Version
Job 36:16 in context
14They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
15He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
16Even 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.
17But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
18Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
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Key words (Strong's)
- straitnessmûwtsaqnarrownessH4164 →
- removedçûwthproperly, to prickH5496 →
- straitpehthe mouth , whether literal or figurativeH6310 →
- straittsarnarrowH6862 →
- placerachaba widthH7338 →
- tableshulchâna tableH7979 →
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Elihu here comes more closely to Job; and, I. He tells him what God would have done for him before this if he had been duly humbled under his affliction. "We all know how ready God is to deliver the poor in his affliction (Job 36:15); he always was so.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-23