Job 36:19
Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
In Context
18Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.
20Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
Cross References
Job 9:13God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
Psalms 33:16No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Isaiah 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on 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 →