Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

Will your cry for help sustain [you] without distress, or all [the] efforts of [your] strength?

New American Standard Bible

“Will your riches keep you from distress,
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

Can your wealth or all your physical exertion
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?

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁוּע 
Shuwa` 
Usage: 2

no, not gold
בּצר 
B@tsar 
Usage: 1

nor all the forces
מאמץ 
Ma'amats 
Usage: 1

References

Easton

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

18 Yes, [it is] wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let [the] ransom's greatness turn you aside. 19 Will your cry for help sustain [you] without distress, or all [the] efforts of [your] strength? 20 You must not long for the night, to cut off people {in their place}.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.

Proverbs 11:21

{Rest assured}, the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.

Job 9:13

God will not turn back his anger; beneath him the helpers of Rahab bow.

Job 34:20

[In] a moment they die, and [in] the middle of [the] night [the] people are shaken, and they pass away, and they take away [the] mighty {effortlessly}.

Psalm 33:16-17

The king [is] not saved by [the] greatness of an army. The warrior is not delivered by [the] greatness of strength.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Isaiah 2:20

On that day humanity will throw away its idols of silver and its idols of gold, which they made for it to worship, to the rodents and to the bats--

Isaiah 37:36

And the angel of Yahweh set out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When they rose in the morning, look! All of them [were] dead corpses.

Zephaniah 1:18

Moreover, their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. And in the fire of his zeal, the whole land shall be consumed, for a terrifying end he shall make [for] all the inhabitants of the land.

James 5:3

Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you, and it will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days.

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