Job 36:20
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
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 first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne, to the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.
Job 3:20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to 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 my 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 are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree falleth towards the south, or towards 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 →