A moment in scripture
Job 36:16
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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.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 36:14
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
- Job 36:15
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
- 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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.