Job 36:19
Can your wealth benefit you, so that you will not be in distress, 1 or can all the force of your strength help you? 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
In Context
18Do not let your anger entice you to mockery, 1 or the greatness of a ransom to turn you aside. 1
20Do not desire the night, to commit sin against others, 1 when peoples are cut off in their place. 1
Cross References
Job 9:13God will not withdraw his anger; 1 the helpers of Rahab bow beneath him. 1
Psalms 33:16No king is saved by a vast army; 1 a warrior is not saved by his great strength. 1
Proverbs 11:4Wealth is worthless on the day of wrath, 1 but doing right keeps you from death. 1
Isaiah 2:20On that day people will throw away their idols of silver and of gold 1 that they have made for themselves to worship—they will throw them away to the moles and bats. 1
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them 1 on the day of Yahweh's fury. In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, 1 for he will bring a complete, a terrible end of all the inhabitants of 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 →