Job 36:18
King James Version (KJV)
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
In context
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.
17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Job 36:18 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
- WEB World English Bible
- Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.