Job 36:19
Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
In Context
20Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.
Cross References
Job 9:13God, whose wrath no mall can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.
Psalms 33:16The king is not saved by a great army: nor shall the giant be saved by his own great strength.
Proverbs 11:4Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.
Isaiah 2:20In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.
Zephaniah 1:18Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy, for he shall make even a speedy destruction 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 →