Job 36:20
Long not thou for that night To which nations are taken away from their place.
Noyes Bible
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! neither thy gold, nor all the abundance of thy wealth.
21Take heed, turn not thine eyes to iniquity! For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Cross References
Job 3:20Why giveth He light to him that is in misery, And life to the bitter in soul,
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, Yea, death, rather than these my bones.
Job 17:13Yea, I look to the grave as my home; I have made my bed in darkness.
Job 34:25Therefore he knoweth their works, And in a night he overthroweth them, so that they are destroyed.
Ecclesiastes 11:3When the clouds are full of rain, they empty upon the earth; and when a tree falleth to the south or the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall 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 →