Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
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?
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.
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?
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 Do not let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside. 19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength? 20 Do not desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 11:4
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:21
Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the seed of the righteous will be delivered.
Job 9:13
"God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
Job 34:20
In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
Psalm 33:16-17
There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 37:36
The angel of the LORD went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.