Verse 20

Do not long for the night, when people are taken from their place.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:20 : 20 In a moment, they die; at midnight, people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are removed without human intervention.
  • Job 34:25 : 25 Because He knows their deeds, He overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked are brought down by their own evil, but the righteous take refuge when they die.
  • Eccl 11:3 : 3 When the clouds are full, they pour down rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, wherever it falls, there it will lie.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 That very night, Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, 'Fool! This very night your soul will be required of you, and the things you have prepared—who will they belong to?'
  • Acts 1:25 : 25 To take up the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
  • 1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, "Peace and safety," sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
  • Exod 12:29 : 29 At midnight, the LORD struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock.
  • 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 That night, the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning, there were dead bodies everywhere.
  • Job 3:20-21 : 20 Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul? 21 To those who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 That God would be willing to crush me, to let loose His hand and cut me off!
  • Job 7:15 : 15 I prefer strangling and death rather than this body of mine.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I hope for Sheol as my home, and I make my bed in darkness, 14 and I call the pit my father, and the worm my mother and sister,