Job 36:19
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Job 36:19 in other translations
| BSB | Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress? |
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| WEB | Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength? |
| ASV | Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress, Or all the forces of thy strength? |
| YLT | Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power. |
| DARBY | Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength! |
| BBE | ... |
| Webster | Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength. |
What does Job 36:19 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 36:15-23
Elihu shows that Job caused the continuance of his own trouble. He cautions him not to persist in frowardness. Even good men need to be kept to their duty by the fear of God's wrath; the wisest and best have enough in them to deserve his stroke. Let not Job continue his unjust quarrel with God and his providence. And let us never dare to think favourably of sin, never indulge it, nor allow ourselves in it. Elihu…
Job 36:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 36:19
- Proverbs 11:4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
- Proverbs 11:21
Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
- Job 9:13
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
- James 5:3
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
- Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
- Psalms 33:16-17
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
- Zephaniah 1:18
Neither 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.
- Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
- Isaiah 2:20
In 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;
- Job 34:20
In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
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Context
- Job 36:18
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
- Job 36:19
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
- Job 36:20
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Job 36:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Hará él estima de tus riquezas, ni del oro, ni de todas las fuerzas del poder? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tiendra-t-il compte de tes richesses? Non; – ni de l’or, ni de toutes les ressources de la puissance. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Soll dich dein Schreien außer Bedrängnis stellen und alle Anstrengungen der Kraft? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Depone magnitudinem tuam absque tribulatione, et omnes robustos fortitudine. |