Job 36 · Verse 17

Job 36:17

But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
Job 36:17, King James Version

Job 36:17 in other translations

BSBBut now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.
WEB“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
ASVBut thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold on thee.
YLTAnd the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld--because of fury,
DARBYBut thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
BBE...
WebsterBut thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

What does Job 36:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
17. 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].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 17 But 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.

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…

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Job 36:17 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְדִין\־ve.din-and judgment ofH1779
רָשָׁ֥עra.Sha'[the] wickedH7563
מָלֵ֑אתָma.Le.tayou are fullH4390
דִּ֖יןdinjudgmentH1779
וּמִשְׁפָּ֣טu.mish.Patand justiceH4941
יִתְמֹֽכוּ\׃yit.Mo.khuthey take hold of [you]H8551

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 36:17

  • Romans 1:32

    Who 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 18:4

    And 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.

  • Job 34:36

    My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.

  • Job 16:5

    But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

  • Job 22:11

    Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

  • Job 34:8

    Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
fulfilled.
16:5; 34:8,36; Ro 1:32; Re 18:4
take hold on thee. should uphold thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 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 36:18

    Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

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Job 36:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mas tú has llenado el juicio del impío, en vez de sustentar el juicio y la justicia.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mais tu es plein des jugements des méchants; le jugement et la justice te saisiront.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Aber du bist mit dem Urteil des Gesetzlosen erfüllt: Urteil und Gericht werden dich ergreifen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Causa tua quasi impii judicata est: causam judiciumque recipies.