Job 36:16
The Scripture
(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.
Chapter overview (whole chapter)
Job 36 opens Elihu's continued defense of God, in which he claims to speak on God's behalf and to fetch knowledge from afar, asserting that God is mighty and despises no one, giving justice to the afflicted and the righteous their rights. He explains that God uses affliction to reveal transgression and to turn people back from iniquity, while binding kings in fetters when they refuse correction. Elihu closes by exalting God's greatness as a teacher beyond knowledge, describing how He commands the clouds, spreads His lightning, and judges the peoples, with the thunder of His voice declaring His majesty.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 19:8Job 42:10Job 42:11Job 42:12Job 42:13Job 42:14Job 42:15Job 42:16Job 42:17Psalms 18:19Psalms 31:8Psalms 40:1
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