Job 36:17

Job 36:17 in other versions

• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)But you are obsessed with whether the godless will be judged. Don’t worry, judgment and justice will be upheld.

Context of Job 36:17

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. But 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. 19Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

Job 36:17 word by word

וְדִין־רָשָׁ֥ע מָלֵ֑אתָ דִּ֖ין וּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט יִתְמֹֽכוּ׃Read the interlinear

• 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 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
• Job 34:8Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
• Romans 1:32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
• Revelation 18:4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

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)

In the dictionaries

• Ascribe
• Elihu
• Esteem
• Hang
• Fulfil
• God

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