Job 36:20
Do not prolong the night, even if people rise on their behalf.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Lay down your greatness without distress, and put aside all of your power with courage.
21Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity; for, after your misery, you have begun to follow this.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29Then it happened, in the middle of the night: the Lord struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the captive woman who was in prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul,
Job 7:15so that, because of these things, my soul would choose hanging, and my bones, death.
Job 17:13If I should wait, the underworld is my house, and in darkness I have spread out my bed.
Job 34:25For he knows their works, and, as a result, he will bring the night, and they will be crushed.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds have been filled, they will pour forth rain upon the earth. If a tree falls to the south, or to the north, or to whatever direction it may fall, there it shall remain.
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 →