Even so, if thou hadst opened thine ear to God's counsels, and humbled thyself under his correcting hand, and sued to God for mercy, would he have removed thee; as this verb is used, 2 Chronicles 18:31. Or, allured, or enticed, or persuaded thee, as the word properly signifies; which possibly may here be emphatical, and may imply, as that Job had by his sins brought himself into these straits, so that God would have brought him out of them by the usual and regular way, to wit, by persuading him to turn from his sins, and humbly and earnestly to cry to God for mercy, which if he had complied with, God would have delivered him. Out of the strait, Heb. out of the mouth or jaws of tribulation; which like a wild beast was read to swallow him up. Into a broad place, i.e. into a state of ease and freedom. Thy table; thy dishes, or the food in them.
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Job 36:16
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.