Job 36:17

"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."

Key Reflection

Job 36:17 describes a scenario where God offers relief from suffering and distress, inviting Job to a spacious area with no limitations, where his needs are abundantly met. This imagery contrasts the confines of Job’s current plight with the freedom and prosperity he would experience if he were to accept God's guidance. The "wide place" symbolizes a state of liberation and full provision, reflecting the divine promise of abundant life beyond the trials experienced by the protagonist.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked -Rosenmuller explains this as meaning, “If under divine inflictions and chastisements you wish to imitate the obduracy of the wicked, then the cause and the punishment will mutually sustain them selves; that is, the one will be commensurate with the other.” But it is not necessary to regard this as a “supposition.” It has rather the aspect of; an affirmation, meaning to express the fact that Job “had,” as Elihu feared, envinced the same spirit in his trials which the wicked do. He had not seen in him evidence of penitence and of a desire to return to God, but had heard complaints and murmurings, such as the wicked indulge in.

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