Job 36:20
Do not desire the night, || For the going up of peoples in their stead.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
21Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, || For you have fixed on this || Rather than [on] affliction.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29And it comes to pass, at midnight, that YHWH has struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, to the firstborn of the captive who [is] in the prison-house, and every firstborn of beasts.
Job 3:20Why does He give light to the miserable, and life to the bitter soul?
Job 7:15And my soul chooses strangling, || Death rather than my bones.
Job 17:13If I wait—Sheol [is] my house, || In darkness I have spread out my bed.
Job 34:25Therefore He knows their works, || And He has overturned by night, || And they are bruised.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the thick clouds are full of rain, || On the earth they empty [themselves]; And if a tree falls in the south or to the north, || The place where the tree falls, there it is.
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 →