Job 36:20
Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.
21Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity : for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle.
Job 3:20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?
Job 7:15So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.
Job 17:13If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
Job 34:25For he knoweth their works : and therefore he shall bring night on them, and they shall be destroyed.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds be full, they will pour out rain upon the earth. If the tree fall to the south, or to the north, in what place soever it shall fall, 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 →