Job 36:20
Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
In Context
19Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.
21Take heed — do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than [on] affliction.
Cross References
Exodus 12:29And it cometh to pass, at midnight, that Jehovah hath smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive who [is] in the prison-house, and every first-born of beasts.
Job 3:20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
Job 7:15And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
Job 17:13If I wait — Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
Job 34:25Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.
Ecclesiastes 11:3If the thick clouds are full of rain, On the earth they empty [themselves]; And if a tree doth fall in the south or to the north, The place where the tree falleth, there it is.
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 →