Job 36:19
17 But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.
18 Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.
Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
20 Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
21 Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
- KJV
- Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
- 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?
- DARBY
- Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
- BLB
- Can your opulence make arrangement in time of distress, or all the forces of strength?
- ÅB
- Kan vel ditt skrik fri deg ut av trengsel, og kan vel alt ditt strev og slit utrette det?
- OTB
- Vil din rikdom eller din styrkes anstrengelse holde deg fra nød?
- B1930
- Kan vel ditt skrik fri dig ut av trengsel, og kan vel alt ditt strev og slit utrette det?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 11:4
Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Read in contextProverbs 11:21
Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
Read in contextJob 9:13
God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
Read in contextJames 5:3
Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.
Read in contextIsaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
Read in contextPsalms 33:16–17
No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
Read in contextZephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
Read in contextProverbs 10:2
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Read in context