Job 36:20
Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
21Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29At midnight, the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
Job 3:20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
Job 7:15so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 34:25Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it 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 →