Job 36:19
Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
In Context
20Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.
Cross References
Job 9:13God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him:
Psalms 33:16The king is not saved by the multitude of [his] forces; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
Proverbs 11:4Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Isaiah 2:20In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made [each] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Zephaniah 1:18their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for a full end, yea, a sudden [end], shall he make of all them that dwell in 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 →