Job 36:20
Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Will thy riches suffice, that thou be not in distress, or all the forces of thy strength?
21Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29And it came to pass at midnight, that 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 these my bones.
Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
Job 34:25Therefore he taketh knowledge of 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 a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, 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 →