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Job 36:16

Job chapter 36 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.15He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.

v.16This passage

v.17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take holdon thee.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 42:10

    And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

  • Psalms 36:8

    They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; And thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

  • Psalms 40:1

    I waited patiently for Jehovah; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

  • Psalms 63:5

    My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips;

  • Job 19:8

    He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

  • Psalms 31:8

    And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large place.