Job 36:17

The A. V. takes this verse positively; it is more suitable to the connexion and purpose of the speaker to understand it conditionally if thou art filled with, or as A. V. fulfillest. To be full of, or to fulfil, the judgment of the wicked, is to join the wicked in their judgment of God when He afflicts, to lay up wrath against God (Job 36:13), an idea immediately taken up in Job 36:18. If Job acts in this way, as he is too much inclined (Job 36:21), then judgment and justice shall keep hold on him. God's condemnation of him will reveal itself in the continuance and increase of his chastisement (cf. Job 36:13, ch. Job 5:1 seq.). The word "judgment" is used in the one clause of man's, and in the other of God's judgment, making a forcible antithesis.