Job 36:19
Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
In Context
18Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
20Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Cross References
Job 9:13“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
Psalms 33:16There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
Proverbs 11:4Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Isaiah 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in 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 →