Job 36:20
Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Will he value thy riches? Nay not precious ore, nor all the forces of strength.
21Beware, do not turn unto iniquity, For, this, thou hast chosen rather than affliction.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29And it came to pass, at midnight, that Yahweh, smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat upon his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive who was in the pit of his prison,—and every firstborn of beasts.
Job 3:20Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?—
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than [these] my bones!
Job 17:13If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;
Job 34:25Therefore, he observeth their works,—and overturneth [them] in a night, and they are crushed;
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds be filled with a downpour, upon the earth, will they empty themselves, and, if a tree fall in the south or in the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there will it be found.
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 →