Job 36:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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.

Literally, He would have led forth thee also out of the jaws of a strait" - namely, if thou hadst humbled thyself as the pious poor in affliction, and hadst opened thine ear to admonition in thy straits (Job 36:15; Psalms 18:19; Psalms 118:5). х mipiy (H6310) tsaar (H6862)] The "broad place" expresses the liberty, and the well-supplied "table" the abundance of the prosperous (Psalms 23:5; Isaiah 25:6).

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.