Job 36:19

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

¹⁸ “Beware that wrath does not entice you to scoffing;
And do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
¹⁹ “Will your riches keep you from distress,
Or all the forces of your strength?
²⁰ “Do not long for the night,
When people vanish in their place.

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Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
But righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 11:21

Assuredly, the evil man will not go unpunished,
But the descendants of the righteous will be delivered.

Job 9:13

“God will not turn back His anger;
Beneath Him crouch the helpers of Rahab.

Job 34:20

“In a moment they die, and at midnight
People are shaken and pass away,
And the mighty are taken away without a hand.

Psalm 33:16-17

The king is not saved by a mighty army;
A warrior is not delivered by great strength.

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten gains do not profit,
But righteousness delivers from death.

Isaiah 2:20

In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats
Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to worship,

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were dead.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold
Will be able to deliver them
On the day of the Lord’s wrath;
And all the earth will be devoured
In the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make a complete end,
Indeed a terrifying one,
Of all the inhabitants of the earth.

James 5:3

Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!