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Job 36:19
Job 36:19 is verse 19 of Job chapter 36, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
Or your cry for help
King James Version
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?
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Job 36:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
19 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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 10:2Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Isaiah 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.
Zephaniah 1:18Neither 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.
James 5:3Your 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.
Job 9:13God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
Job 34:20They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
Psalms 33:16No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
Psalms 33:17A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.
Proverbs 11:21Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
Isaiah 37:36Then 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!