Job 36:19

Job 36:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
• New International Version (NIV)Would your wealth or even all your mighty efforts sustain you so you would not be in distress?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Will your cry for help avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Will your riches, Or all the mighty forces, Keep you from distress?

Context of Job 36:19

17But now you have a lot of trouble, because God is punishing you as wicked people deserve. God is right and fair to judge you like that. 18Be very careful! Do not let anyone use their riches to deceive you. Do not let them pay you a lot of money to do something that is wrong. Even if you become rich, that would not keep you safe. Even if you were strong and powerful, that would not keep trouble away from you. 20Do not wait for the night to hide what you want to do. That is the time when people disappear from their homes. 21Be careful! Do not try to do wicked things. God has sent these troubles to test you. He wants to stop you doing evil things.

Job 36:19 word by word

הֲיַעֲרֹ֣ךְ שׁ֭וּעֲךָ לֹ֣א בְצָ֑ר וְ֝כֹ֗ל מַאֲמַצֵּי־כֹֽחַ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Will he esteemעָרַךְ‛ârak · to arrangeH6186
• thy richesשׁוּעַshûa‛ · cryH7769
• not goldבְּצַרbetsar · goldH1222
• nor all the forcesמַאֲמָץma'ămâts · powerH3981
• of strengthכֹּחַkôach kôach · strengthH3581

Cross-references for Job 36:19

• Proverbs 10:2If you are not honest, your money will not help you. But if you are righteous, it will save you from death.
• Proverbs 11:4When it is time for God to punish you, money will not help you to escape. But if you are righteous, that will save you from death.
• Isaiah 2:20At that time, people will throw away their silver idols and their gold idols. They made those idols so that they could worship them. But now they will throw them into caves where rats and bats live.
• Zephaniah 1:18Their money will not save them, on the day when the Lord is angry. He watches. And he is angry when his people love other gods. So he will send fire on the earth. Yes, he will quickly kill all the people who live in Judah.
• James 5:3You have stored silver and gold coins to spend for yourselves. But dirt has spoiled those coins. That dirt will show that you are guilty. It will become like fire that is burning your bodies. In the last days of this world you have stored all this money for yourselves.
• Job 9:13If God is angry, he will not stop. He destroys Rahab and the other monsters of the sea.
• Job 34:20Anyone may die suddenly, in the middle of the night. God may shake them, so that they die. He easily removes even the most powerful people.
• Psalms 33:16A great army will not save their king. A soldier does not stay alive because he is strong.
• Proverbs 11:21Be sure about this: Evil people will receive the punishment that they deserve. But people who are righteous will escape.
• Isaiah 37:36Then the Lord's angel went to the camp of the Assyrian army. He killed 185,000 of their soldiers. When people got up in the morning, they saw all those dead bodies!

Commentaries on Job 36:19

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19Will he esteem thy riches? - That is God will not regard thy riches as a reason why he should not cut you off, or as a ransom for your forfeited life. The reference here must be to the fact that Job “had been” a rich man, and the meaning is, either that God would not spare him because he “had been” a rich man, or that if he had now all the wealth which he once possessed, it would not be sufficient to be a ransom for his life. Nor all the forces of his…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-23Verses 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 thinks Job needed this…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. forces of strength--that is, resources of wealth (Psa 49:7; Pr 11:4).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 36:19

• Death
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Commentaries on Job 36

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings