Job 36:20
Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
21Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29Now at midnight the LORD struck down 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 dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.
Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
Job 34:25Therefore, He recognizes their deeds; He overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
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 →