Job 36:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no constraint, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Indeed, God would have allured you out of the mouth of distress into a broad place where there is no situation of perplexity or privation; and that which would be set on your table would be full of fatness.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Surely he draws you up from the brink of trouble to a wide place without distress; your table is set with rich food.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Therefore, he will save you from the narrow mouth very widely, even though it has no foundation under it. Moreover, your respite at table will be full of fatness.

Job 36:16 Cross References

Psalm 23:5

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Psalm 118:5

Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me in a broad place.

Isaiah 25:6

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear.

Psalm 63:5

My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast, and my mouth praises you with joyful lips

Psalm 31:8

and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

Psalm 18:19

He brought me out into a broad place; he delivered me because he delighted in me.

Psalm 36:8

They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.

Hosea 2:14

Therefore, I will now allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your earnings for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Job 5:17

“How happy is the one whom God reproves; therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

Job 15:11

Are the consolations of God too small for you or the word that deals gently with you?

Psalm 18:20

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

Psalm 63:6

when I think of you on my bed and meditate on you in the watches of the night,