New American Standard Bible 2020
Job 36:19
19Will your cry for help keep you from distress, Or all the exertions of your strength?
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
17“But you were full of judgment on the wicked; Judgment and justice take hold of you. 18Beware that wrath does not entice you to mockery; And do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside. Will your cry for help keep you from distress, Or all the exertions of your strength? 20Do not long for the night, When people vanish in their places. 21Be careful, do not turn to evil, For you preferred this to misery.
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הֲיַעֲרֹ֣ךְ שׁ֭וּעֲךָ לֹ֣א בְצָ֑ר וְ֝כֹ֗ל מַאֲמַצֵּי־כֹֽחַ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 36:19
- Proverbs 10:2Ill-gotten gains do not benefit, But righteousness rescues from death.
- Proverbs 11:4Riches do not benefit on the day of wrath, But righteousness rescues from death.
- Isaiah 2:20On that day people will throw away to the moles and the bats Their idols of silver and their idols of gold, Which they made for themselves to worship,
- Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold Will be able to save them On the day of the Lord’s anger; And all the earth will be devoured By the fire of His jealousy, For He will make a complete end, Indeed a horrifying one, Of all the inhabitants of the earth.
- James 5:3Your gold and your silver have corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!
- Job 9:13“God will not turn back His anger; Beneath Him the helpers of Rahab cower.
- Job 34:20In a moment they die, and at midnight People are shaken and pass away, And the powerful are taken away without a hand.
- Psalms 33:16The king is not saved by a mighty army; A warrior is not rescued by great strength.
- Proverbs 11:21Be assured, the evil person will not go unpunished, But the descendants of the righteous will be rescued.
- Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the rest got up early in the morning, behold, all of the 185,000 were dead.
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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