Job 36:20
Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
21Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29And it came to pass that at midnight Jehovah smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.
Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
Job 17:13If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
Job 34:25Since he knoweth their actions; and he overthroweth [them] in the night, and they are crushed.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall 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 →