A moment in scripture
Job 36:15
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He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 36:13
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
- Job 36:14
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
- 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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.