Job 36:17

Job 36:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
• New International Version (NIV)But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have taken hold of you.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
• New King James Version (NKJV)But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked; Judgment and justice take hold of you.

Context of Job 36:17

15But God rescues people who suffer. He uses their troubles to teach them about himself. 16God has called you out of your troubles, Job. He wants you to live in a safe place where you have no problems. He wants you to have a comfortable life with plenty of good food to eat. But now you have a lot of trouble, because God is punishing you as wicked people deserve. God is right and fair to judge you like that. 18Be very careful! Do not let anyone use their riches to deceive you. Do not let them pay you a lot of money to do something that is wrong. 19Even if you become rich, that would not keep you safe. Even if you were strong and powerful, that would not keep trouble away from you.

Job 36:17 word by word

וְדִין־רָשָׁ֥ע מָלֵ֑אתָ דִּ֖ין וּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט יִתְמֹֽכוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• But thou hast fulfilledמָלֵאmâlê' mâlâ' · to fillH4390
• the judgmentדִּיןdîyn dûn · judgmentH1779
• of the wickedרָשָׁעrâshâ‛ · wickedH7563
• and justiceמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justiceH4941
• take holdתָּמַךְtâmak · to graspH8551

Cross-references for Job 36:17

• Job 16:5But, instead, I would help you to be strong. I would say things to comfort you.
• Job 34:8He is a friend of wicked people, and people who do evil things.
• Romans 1:32These people understand God's message about what is right. They know that people who do bad things like this ought to die. But they still continue to do those bad things. They are even happy when other people do those bad things too.
• Revelation 18:4Then I heard another voice which spoke from heaven. It said: ‘My people, leave the city! Come out! Do not do the bad things that the people of that city have done. Then you will not receive the terrible troubles that God sends to them.

Commentaries on Job 36:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked - As thou art acting like the wicked, so God deals with thee as he deals with them. Elihu is not a whit behind Job's other friends. None of them seems to have known any thing of the permission given by God to Satan to afflict and torment an innocent man.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked - Rosenmuller explains this as meaning, “If under divine inflictions and chastisements you wish to imitate the obduracy of the wicked, then the cause and the punishment will mutually sustain them selves; that is, the one will be commensurate with the other.” But it is not necessary to regard this as a “supposition.” It has rather the aspect of; an affirmation, meaning to express the fact that Job “had,”…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-23Verses 15-23 Elihu shows that Job caused the continuance of his own trouble. He cautions him not to persist in frowardness. Even good men need to be kept to their duty by the fear of God's wrath; the wisest and best have enough in them to deserve his stroke. Let not Job continue his unjust quarrel with God and his providence. And let us never dare to think favourably of sin, never indulge it, nor allow ourselves in it. Elihu thinks Job needed this…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. Rather, "But if thou art fulfilled (that is, entirely filled) with the judgment of the wicked (that is, the guilt incurring judgment" [Maurer]; or rather, as Umbreit, referring to Job 34:5-7, 36, the judgment pronounced on God by the guilty in misfortunes), judgment (God's judgment on the wicked, Jr 51:9, playing on the double meaning of "judgment") and justice shall closely follow each other [Umbreit].Read the comment

Topics related to Job 36:17

• Wicked (People)

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• Esteem
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• Fulfil
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Commentaries on Job 36

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings