Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"Will your wealth sustain you when you're in distress, despite your most powerful efforts?
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?
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?
Amplified
“Will your wealth [be sufficient to] keep you from [the confinement of] distress,
Or will all the force of your strength do it?
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 So that no one entices you with riches, don't let a large ransom turn you astray. 19 "Will your wealth sustain you when you're in distress, despite your most powerful efforts? 20 Don't long for night, when people vanish in their place.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 11:4
Wealth won't help in the time of judgment, but righteousness will deliver from death.
Proverbs 11:21
Be sure of this: the wicked will not go unpunished, but the descendants of the righteous will go free.
Job 9:13
"God doesn't restrain his anger. Rahab's assistants are humiliated under him.
Job 34:20
"They die suddenly, in the middle of the night; people suffer seizures and pass away; even valiant men can be taken away and not by human hands.
Psalm 33:16-17
A king is not saved by a large army; a mighty soldier is not delivered by his great strength.
Proverbs 10:2
Nothing good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness delivers from death.
Isaiah 2:20
At that time, mankind will throw their silver and gold idols that their fingers have made as objects of worship to the moles and to the bats.
Isaiah 37:36
After this, the angel of the LORD went out and put to death 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When Hezekiah's army awakened in the morning there were all the dead bodies!
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will deliver them in the Day of the LORD's wrath; but the entire land will be consumed by the fire of his jealousy, for he will bring the inhabitants of the land to a sudden end."
James 5:3
your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be used as evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasures in these last days.