Job 36:16
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 in other translations
| BSB | Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness. |
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| WEB | Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness. |
| ASV | Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness. |
| YLT | And also He moved thee from a strait place, To a broad place--no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness. |
| DARBY | Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table would be full of fatness. |
| BBE | ... |
| Webster | 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 would be full of fatness. |
What does Job 36:16 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 36:15-23
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…
Job 36:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 36:16
- Psalms 23:5
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
- Psalms 118:5
I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.
- Psalms 31:8
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
- Psalms 18:19
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
- Psalms 63:5
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
- Isaiah 25:6
And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
- Psalms 36:8
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
- Psalms 40:1-3
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
- Job 42:10-17
And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. He had also seven sons and three daughters. …
- Isaiah 55:2
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
- Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
- Hosea 2:14
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
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Context
- Job 36:15
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
- Job 36:16
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 36:17
But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
Job 36:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Asimismo te apartaría de la boca de la angustia á lugar espacioso, libre de todo apuro; y te asentará mesa llena de grosura. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il t’aurait aussi tiré de la gueule de la détresse et mis au large, là où il n’y a point de gêne, et la graisse abonderait dans les mets de ta table. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | So hätte er auch dich aus dem Rachen der Bedrängnis in einen weiten Raum geführt, wo keine Beengung gewesen, und die Besetzung deines Tisches würde voll Fett sein. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Igitur salvabit te de ore angusto latissime, et non habente fundamentum subter se: requies autem mensæ tuæ erit plena pinguedine. |