Job 36:19
Lay down your greatness without distress, and put aside all of your power with courage.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
In Context
20Do not prolong the night, even if people rise on their behalf.
Cross References
Job 9:13God, whose wrath no one is able to resist, and under whom they bend who carry the world,
Psalms 33:16The eyes of the Lord are on the just, and his ears are with their prayers.
Proverbs 11:4Wealth will not profit in the day of vengeance. But justice shall liberate from death.
Isaiah 2:20In that day, man shall cast aside his idols of silver and his images of gold, which he had made for himself, as if to reverence the moles and the bats.
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver, nor their gold, will be able to free them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. All the land will be devoured in the fire of his zeal, for with all speed, he will bring to consummation every inhabitant of the land.
Matthew Henry on Job 36:16-24
15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. 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. 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee. 18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. 19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all… Read the whole commentary →