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Read Full Chapter (Job 36) Job 36:17 KJV
"But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee."
Job Chapter 36, Verse 17
Job 36:17 in Context (Verses 14–20 KJV)
14
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.**
15
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.*
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.*
17
But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.*
18
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.*
19
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.