Parallel Verses

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.

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Will your cry for help sustain [you] without distress, or all [the] efforts of [your] 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 For beware wrath, that He not lure you with His scorn; then a great ransom cannot turn you aside. 19 If your cry for help is set in order, then it will not be in distress, but with all the forces of strength. 20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:4

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

Proverbs 11:21

Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

Job 9:13

God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of pride stoop under Him.

Job 34:20

In a moment they die, and a people are shaken at midnight and pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without a hand.

Psalm 33:16-17

The king is not saved by a great army; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivers from death.

Isaiah 2:20

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning, and behold! They were all dead corpses.

Zephaniah 1:18

Their silver nor their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy. For He shall make even a full, yea, a speedy end of all the dwellers in the land.

James 5:3

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.

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