Job 36:20

American Standard Version (1901)

Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:20 : 20 In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.
  • Job 34:25 : 25 Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
  • Eccl 11:3 : 3 If 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.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?
  • Acts 1:25 : 25 to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.
  • 1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
  • Exod 12:29 : 29 And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.
  • 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  • Job 3:20-21 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
  • Job 6:9 : 9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
  • Job 7:15 : 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; 14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;

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    6As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

    7Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.

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    4Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;

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