Job 36:19
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold ore, nor all the highest forces of strength.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
In Context
20Desire then not eagerly the night, when nations pass away in their place.
Cross References
Job 9:13God will not withdraw his anger: beneath him sink down the helpers of the proud.
Psalms 33:16The king is not saved by the multitude of an army: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
Proverbs 11:4Wealth cannot profit on the day of wrath; but righteousness deliver from death.
Isaiah 2:20On that day shall a man cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which have been made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord's wrath; through the fire of whose zeal the whole land shall be devoured; for destruction, yea, quite sudden, will he prepare for all the inhabitants 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 →