Job 36:16

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

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WEBBE

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

BSB

Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.

KJV

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

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.

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וְאַף ve·'af and also H637 הֲסִיתְךָ ha·si·te·kha he has allured you H5496 מִפִּי־ mi·pi- from [the] mouth of H6310 צָר tzar enemy H6862 רַחַב ra·chav a broad place H7338 לֹא־ lo'- not H3808 מוּצָק mu·tzak constraint H4164 תַּחְתֶּיהָ tach·tei·ha in place its H8478 וְנַחַת ve·na·chat and [the] quietness of H5183 שֻׁלְחָנְךָ shul·cha·ne·kha table your H7979 מָלֵא ma·le' it was full H4390 דָשֶׁן da·shen fatness H1880

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 15–23

Elihu shows that Job caused the continuance of his own trouble. He cautions him not to persist in frowardness. Even good men need to be kept to their duty by the fear of God's wrath; the wisest and best have enough in them to deserve his stroke. Let not Job continue his unjust quarrel with God and his providence. And let us never dare to think favourably of sin, never indulge it, nor allow ourselves in it. Elihu thinks Job needed this caution, he having chosen rather to gratify his pride and humour by contending with God, than to mortify them by submitting, and accepting the punishment. It is absurd for us to think to teach Him who is himself the Fountain of light, truth, knowledge, and instruction. He teaches by the Bible, and that is the best book; teaches by his Son, and he is the best Master. He is just in all proceedings.

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