God’s Word Translation
Job 36:19
19Will your riches save you from having to suffer? Will all your mighty strength help you?
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 you are given the judgment evil people deserve. A fair judgment will be upheld. 18Be careful that you are not led astray with riches. Don’t let a large bribe turn you ⌞to evil ways⌟. Will your riches save you from having to suffer? Will all your mighty strength help you? 20Don’t look forward to the night, when people disappear from their places. 21Be careful! Don’t turn to evil, because you have chosen evil instead of suffering.
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הֲיַעֲרֹ֣ךְ שׁ֭וּעֲךָ לֹ֣א בְצָ֑ר וְ֝כֹ֗ל מַאֲמַצֵּי־כֹֽחַ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 36:19
- Proverbs 10:2Treasures gained dishonestly profit no one, but righteousness rescues from death.
- Proverbs 11:4Riches are of no help on the day of fury, but righteousness saves from death.
- Isaiah 2:20On that day people will throw to the moles and the bats the silver and gold idols that they made for themselves to worship.
- Zephaniah 1:18Their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the Lord’s overflowing fury. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery anger, because he will put an end, a frightening end, to those who live on earth.
- James 5:3Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be used as evidence against you. Like fire, it will destroy your body. You have stored up riches in these last days.
- Job 9:13God does not hold back his anger. Even Rahab’s helpers bow humbly in front of him.
- Job 34:20They die suddenly in the middle of the night. People have seizures and pass away. Mighty people are taken away but not by human hands.
- Psalms 33:16No king achieves a victory with a large army. No warrior rescues himself by his own great strength.
- Proverbs 11:21Certainly, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the descendants of righteous people will escape.
- Isaiah 37:36The Lord’s angel went out and killed 185,000 ⌞soldiers⌟ in the Assyrian camp. When the Judeans got up early in the morning, they saw all the corpses.
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
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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
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