Job 36:20
Be not carefull in the night, howe he destroyeth the people out of their place.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.
21Take thou heede: looke not to iniquitie: for thou hast chosen it rather then affliction.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29Nowe at midnight, the Lord smote all the first borne in the lande of Egypt, from the first borne of Pharaoh that sate on his throne, vnto the first borne of the captiue that was in prison, and all the first borne of beastes.
Job 3:20Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?
Job 7:15Therefore my soule chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones.
Job 17:13Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shall make my bed in the darke.
Job 34:25Therefore shall he declare their works: he shall turne the night, and they shalbe destroyed.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds be full, they wil powre forth raine vpon the earth: and if the tree doe fall toward the South, or toward the North, in the place that the tree falleth, there it shalbe.
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 →