Job 36:19
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
King James Version
In Context
20Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Cross References
Job 9:13If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
Psalms 33:16There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
Proverbs 11:4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Isaiah 2:20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that 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 →