Job 36:20
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Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
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21Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle.
Job 3:20Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Job 7:15So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
Job 17:13If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
Job 34:25For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will 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 →