Job 36:19
Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
In Context
18Lest He move you with a stroke, || And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.
20Do not desire the night, || For the going up of peoples in their stead.
Cross References
Job 9:13God does not turn back His anger, || Proud helpers have bowed under Him.
Psalms 33:16The king is not saved by the multitude of a force. A mighty man is not delivered, || By abundance of power.
Proverbs 11:4Wealth does not profit in a day of wrath, || And righteousness delivers from death.
Isaiah 2:20In that day man casts his idols of silver, || And his idols of gold, || That they have made for him to worship, || To moles, and to bats,
Zephaniah 1:18Even their silver, even their gold, is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of YHWH, and in the fire of His jealousy is the whole land consumed, for He makes only a hurried end of 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 →