Job 36:19
Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
BSB
ASV
Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress, Or all the forces of thy strength?
KJV
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength. Riches can be of no account, nor bear any weight with God; for they are of him and come from him, and what he has a right to take away and dispose of as he pleases. These cannot ward off the stroke of death, or secure from it; nor can a man possessed of them carry them with him into the other world; nor will they profit in the day of wrath.
Will he esteem thy riches? - That is God will not regard thy riches as a reason why he should not cut you off, or as a ransom for your forfeited life. The reference here must be to the fact that Job “had been” a rich man, and the meaning is, either that God would not spare him because he “had been” a rich man, or that if he had now all the wealth which he once possessed, it would not be sufficient to be a ransom for his life.
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Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
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Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He…
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
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Proverbs 11:21Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
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Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.