KJV King James Version
Will he esteem thy riches? [no], not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
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Job 36:19
Will he esteem thy riches? [no], not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
WEB World English Bible
Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
ASV American Standard Version
Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress, Or all the forces of thy strength?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.
Surrounding context — Job 36
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 the forces of strength.
20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
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Proverbs 11:4Riches 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.Psalm 33:16-17There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.Zephaniah 1:18Neither 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.Isaiah 2:20In 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;Isaiah 37:36Then 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.Job 9:13[If] God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.James 5:3Your 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.Job 34:20In 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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