Job 36:20
Desire then not eagerly the night, when nations pass away in their place.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold ore, nor all the highest forces of strength.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29And it came to pass at midnight, that the Lord smote every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that was to sit on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.
Job 3:20Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul?
Job 7:15So that my soul would choose strangling, death rather than these limbs of mine.
Job 17:13When I hope for the nether world as my house; in the darkness have I spread my couch;
Job 34:25For the reason that he knoweth their deeds: therefore he overturneth them in the night, and they are crushed.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds be full of rain, they will empty it out upon the earth; and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, on the place where the tree falleth, there will it 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 →