Job 36:20
Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Will thy cry not avail in distress, or all the forces of strength?
21Take heed. Do not turn to iniquity, for thou have fixed on this because of affliction.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29And it came to pass at midnight, that LORD smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of cattl
Job 3:20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 7:15so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.
Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 34:25Therefore he takes knowledge of their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth, and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
Matthew Henry on Job 36:16-24
15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. 16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness. 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee. 18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. 19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all… Read the whole commentary →