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Elihu Describes God’s Power

Job 36:19

In 11 translations

BSB
Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?Or your cry for help
KJV
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
WEB
Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
ASV
Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress, Or all the forces of thy strength?
LSV
Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
YLT
Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.
DBY
Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
DRC
Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.
GNV
Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.
JPS
Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, or all the forces of thy strength?
LXXE
Let not thy mind willingly turn thee aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הֲיַעֲרֹ֣ךְ שׁ֭וּעֲךָ לֹ֣א בְצָ֑ר וְ֝כֹ֗ל מַאֲמַצֵּי־כֹֽחַ׃We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
LXX-Br
Μή σε ἐκκλινάτω ἑκὼν ὁ νοῦς δεήσεως ἐν ἀνάγκῃ ὄντων ἀδυνάτων,

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
  • Proverbs 11:21Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
  • Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
  • Isaiah 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.
  • Psalms 33:16–17No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength. A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.
  • Zephaniah 1:18Neither 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 will make a sudden end of all who dwell on…
  • Proverbs 10:2Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
  • James 5:3Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.
  • Job 9:13God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
  • Job 34:20They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.

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