Job 36:20
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
King James Version
In Context
19Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
21Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job 34:25Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward 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 →