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Job 36:16 Cross-References
Explore 12 cross-references for Job 36:16 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 36 verse 16 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“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. that: Heb. the rest of thy table”
Job 36:16 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 36:16
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait (וְאַף הֲסִיתְךָ מִפִּי־צָר, v'af hasit'kha mi-pi tsar)—Elihu shifts from warning to promise, using the verb hasit (to entice, allure, remove) suggesting God's gracious desire to deliver Job from his narrow place (tsar). The imagery is spatial: moving from confinement to a broad place (רַחַב, rachav), the same word David uses in Psalm 18:19 when God 'brought me forth into a large place.'Where there is no straitness (תַּחְתֶּיהָ, tachteha)—literally 'under it' or 'instead of it,' emphasizing the contrast between confinement and freedom. The p...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 36:16
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“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.”
“I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.”
“And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.”
“because he delighted in me.”
“Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things”
“and heard my cry.”
“They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.”
“and has set darkness in my paths.”