Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Because there is wrath, beware lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.
New American Standard Bible
And do not let the greatness of the
King James Version
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Holman Bible
do not let a large ransom
International Standard Version
So that no one entices you with riches, don't let a large ransom turn you astray.
A Conservative Version
and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.
American Standard Version
For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
Amplified
“Do not let wrath entice you into scoffing;
And do not let the greatness and the extent of the ransom turn you aside.
Julia Smith Translation
Because of wrath, lest he shall remove thee with smiting, and a multitude of covering shall not turn thee away.
King James 2000
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with one blow: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yes, [it is] wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let [the] ransom's greatness turn you aside.
Modern King James verseion
For beware wrath, that He not lure you with His scorn; then a great ransom cannot turn you aside.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For then shall not thy cause be stilled with cruelty, nor pacified with many gifts.
NET Bible
Be careful that no one entices you with riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.
New Heart English Bible
Do not let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
The Emphasized Bible
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with a stroke, Then let not, a great ransom, mislead thee.
Webster
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
World English Bible
Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 36:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Greatness
17 But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee. 18 Because there is wrath, beware lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee. 19 Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
Phrases
Cross References
Job 33:24
Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Romans 1:18
For there is revealed wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety, and unrighteousness of men holding the truth in unrighteousness.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Psalm 2:5
Then will he speak to them in his anger, and in his fierce displeasure will he terrify them:
Psalm 2:12
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, though his anger burn but a little. Blessed are all who have their trust in him.
Psalm 39:10
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
Psalm 49:7-8
None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,
Psalm 110:5
The Lord at thy right hand will smite through kings in the day of his anger.
Isaiah 14:6
He that smote the peoples in wrath with a relentless stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted unsparingly.
Ezekiel 24:16
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; yet thou shalt not mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Matthew 3:7
But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Romans 2:5
but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
1 Timothy 2:6
who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be rendered in its own times;
Hebrews 2:3
how shall we escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken of by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;