But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
'But if thou art fulfilled (i:e., entirely filled) with the judgment of the wicked' (i:e., the guilt incurring judgment, 'But if thou art fulfilled (i:e., entirely filled) with the judgment of the wicked' (i:e., the guilt incurring judgment, Maurer; or, as Umbreit, referring to Job 34:5-7; Job 34:36, the judgment pronounced on God by the guilty in misfortunes), judgment (God's judgment on the wicked; Jeremiah 51:9, playing on the double meaning of "judgment") and justice (or, as Maurer, 'guilt and its judicial penalty') shall closely follow each other' (Umbreit). The English version, however, is good sense, and accords with the Hebrew: 'Thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked,' by making common cause with them in their judgment of God: accordingly, 'judgment (from God) and justice take hold'-namely, of thee. The abruptness of the Hebrew expresses better the retributive correspondence between Job's continuance in an unhumbled spirit of judging God and his continuance in affliction, the judicial just penalty. Job 34:7-8 shows Elihu puts no 'if' in the case, but asserts Job does "fulfil the judgment of the wicked."