19Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-23)Elihu here comes more closely to Job; and, I. He tells him what God would have done for him before this if he had been duly humbled under his affliction. “We all know how ready God is to deliver the poor in his affliction (Job 36:15); he always was so. The poor in spirit, those that are of a broken and contrite heart, he looks upon with tenderness, and, when they are in affliction, is ready to hel…
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