Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Will your wealth [be sufficient to] keep you from [the confinement of] distress,
Or will all the force of your strength do it?
New American Standard Bible
Or all the forces of your strength?
King James Version
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Holman Bible
keep you from distress?
International Standard Version
"Will your wealth sustain you when you're in distress, despite your most powerful efforts?
A Conservative Version
Will thy cry not avail in distress, or all the forces of strength?
American Standard Version
Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress, Or all the forces of thy'strength?
Darby Translation
Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
Julia Smith Translation
Will he value thy riches? not gold and all the powers of thy strength.
King James 2000
Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Will your cry for help sustain [you] without distress, or all [the] efforts of [your] strength?
Modern King James verseion
If your cry for help is set in order, then it will not be in distress, but with all the forces of strength.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hath God ordained then, that the glorious life of thee, and all such mighty men should not be put down?
NET Bible
Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?
New Heart English Bible
Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
The Emphasized Bible
Will he value thy riches? Nay not precious ore, nor all the forces of strength.
Webster
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
World English Bible
Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
Youngs Literal Translation
Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 36:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Greatness
18
“Do not let wrath entice you into scoffing;
And do not let the greatness and the extent of the ransom turn you aside.
“Will your wealth [be sufficient to] keep you from [the confinement of] distress,
Or will all the force of your strength do it?
“Do not long for the night,
When people vanish from their places.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 11:4
Riches will not provide security in the day of wrath and judgment,
But righteousness rescues from death.
Proverbs 11:21
Assuredly, the evil man will not go unpunished,
But the descendants of the righteous will be freed.
Job 9:13
“God will not turn back His anger;
The [proud] helpers of Rahab [the arrogant monster of the sea] bow under Him.
Job 34:20
“In a moment they die, even at midnight
The people are shaken and pass away,
And the powerful are taken away without a [human] hand.
Psalm 33:16-17
The king is not saved by the great size of his army;
A warrior is not rescued by his great strength.
Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness and ill-gotten gains do not profit,
But righteousness and moral integrity in daily life rescues from death.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day men will throw away to the moles and to the bats
Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves [as objects] to worship,
Isaiah 37:36
And the
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold
Will be able to rescue them
On the day of the Lord’s indignation and wrath.
And the whole earth will be consumed
In the fire of His jealous
For He shall make a full and complete end,
Indeed a terrifying one,
Of all the inhabitants of the earth.
James 5:3
Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up your treasure in the last days [when it will do you no good].