Job 36:19
Will he value thy riches? Nay not precious ore, nor all the forces of strength.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
In Context
20Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place.
Cross References
Job 9:13As for GOD, if he withdraw not his anger, under him, will have submitted themselves—the proud helpers.
Psalms 33:16Not a king, can be saved by greatness of force, nor, hero, deliver himself by greatness of strength:
Proverbs 11:4Wealth, shall not profit, in the day of wrath, but, righteousness, shall deliver from death.
Isaiah 2:20In that day shall the son of earth cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,—which had been made for him to worship, into the hole of the mice, and to the bats;
Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor yet their gold, shall be able to deliver them, in the day of the indignation of Yahweh, but, in the fire of his jealousy, shall the whole earth be consumed; For, a destruction, surely a terrible one, will he make, with all them who dwell in 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 →