Job 36:20
Do not long for the night when people are suddenly taken away.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Will your cry for help sustain you when troubles come?
Cross References
Exodus 12:29At midnight the Lord killed every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the jail, and also all the firstborn of the livestock.
Job 3:20Why does God give life to those who are suffering, living bitterly miserable lives,
Job 7:15that I would rather be strangled—I would rather die than become just a bag of bones.
Job 17:13What am I looking for? To make my home in Sheol, to make my bed in darkness?
Job 34:25Knowing what they've done he overthrows them in a night and destroys them.
Ecclesiastes 11:3When the clouds are full they pour rain down upon the earth. Whether a tree falls to the north or to the south, it stays where it fell.
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 →