Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Hath God ordained then, that the glorious life of thee, and all such mighty men should not be put down?

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 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.

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 then shall not thy cause be stilled with cruelty, nor pacified with many gifts. 19 Hath God ordained then, that the glorious life of thee, and all such mighty men should not be put down? 20 Prolong not thou the time, till there come a night for thee, to set other people in thy stead.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:4

Riches help not in the day of vengeance; but righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 11:21

It shall not help the wicked, though they lay all their hands together; but the seed of the righteous shall be preserved.

Job 9:13

He is God, whose wrath no man may withstand: but the proudest of all must stoop under him.

Job 34:20

In the twinkling of an eye shall they be slain: and at midnight, when the people and the tyrants rage, then shall they perish, and be taken away without hands.

Psalm 33:16-17

There is no king that can be saved by the multitude of a host; neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures that are wickedly gotten, profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.

Isaiah 2:20

Then, then shall man cast away his gods of silver and gold - which he nevertheless had made to honour them - unto moles and bats

Isaiah 37:36

Thus the angel went forth, and slew of the Assyrians host, a hundred and eighty five thousand. And when men arose up early, at Jerusalem: Behold, all lay full of dead bodies.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in that wrathful day of the LORD, but the whole land shall be consumed through the fire of his jealousy: for he shall soon make clean riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

James 5:3

Your gold and your silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness unto you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together in your last days.

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