King James Version (KJV)
Job 36:18
“Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with [his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.”
Verse in context — Job 36
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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.
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But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
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Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with [his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
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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.
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