Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 36:16

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 36:16 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 36:16. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the Book of Job, God wants to take you from a tight, difficult spot and bring you to a wide, happy place where you have lots of good things. It's like moving from a tiny room to a big, beautiful one filled with delicious food.

Job 36:16: 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. [that...: Heb. the rest of thy table]

Contradiction with Job 36:11

Job 36:16 speaks of deliverance, while verse 11 promises prosperity upon obedience, which can be seen as conditional rather than straightforward deliverance.

Job 36:11: If they obey and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 8:14

Job 36:16 suggests a positive outcome, whereas Ecclesiastes 8:14 describes the righteous meeting misfortune, suggesting life's events do not always align with virtue.

Ecclesiastes 8:14: There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

Contradiction with Psalm 73:3–5

Job 36:16 talks about deliverance from oppression, while these verses describe how the wicked often live without trouble, contradicting the notion of automatic deliverance for the righteous.

Contradiction with Matthew 5:45

Job 36:16 implies a specific divine intervention for deliverance, while Matthew 5:45 describes how God is impartial, giving rain and sun to both the just and unjust.

Matthew 5:45: That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Contradiction with Romans 8:28

Job 36:16 implies deliverance from distress, whereas Romans 8:28 suggests that all things, including suffering, work together for good, rather than deliverance from the situation.

Romans 8:28: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
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