Job 36:19
Will your cry for help sustain you when troubles come?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
In Context
20Do not long for the night when people are suddenly taken away.
Cross References
Job 9:13God does not restrain his anger; he crushes Rahab's helpers underfoot.
Psalms 33:16Even the greatest army cannot save a king; the greatest strength cannot save a warrior.
Proverbs 11:4Wealth won't help you on judgment day, but goodness saves you from death.
Isaiah 2:20On that day the people will take the idols of silver and gold that they made to worship and throw them away to the rats and the bats.
Zephaniah 1:18Their silver and their gold won't help to save them on the day of the Lord's anger. The whole earth will be burned up by the fire of his jealous anger. He will make sure the end of the people of the world is sudden and complete.
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 →