Job 36:19
Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, or all the forces of thy strength?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 in their place.
Cross References
Job 9:13God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of Rahab did stoop under Him.
Psalms 33:16A king is not saved by the multitude of a host; a mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
Proverbs 11:4Riches profit not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Isaiah 2:20In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole earth shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy; for He will make and end, yea, a terrible end, of all them that dwell in the earth.
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 →