Job 36:20

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  • Job 34:20 : 20 Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.
  • Job 34:25 : 25 For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
  • Eccl 11:3 : 3 If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
  • Acts 1:25 : 25 To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.
  • 1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
  • Exod 12:29 : 29 And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle.
  • 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 And that night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
  • Job 3:20-21 : 20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul; 21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;
  • Job 6:9 : 9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
  • Job 7:15 : 15 So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; 14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

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  • Job 3:4-9
    6 verses
    77%

    4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

    5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

    6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

    7 As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;

    8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

    9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

  • Job 36:18-19
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  • 1 Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:

  • 21 Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.

  • 20 Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    71%

    16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

    17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • 25 Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers:

  • 16 When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

  • 21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

  • 12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

  • 13 In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

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    18 For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

    19 Do not be troubled because of evil-doers, or have envy of sinners:

    20 For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.

  • Job 27:19-20
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    19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

    20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

  • 14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

  • 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

  • 4 Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;

  • 29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

  • 9 At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.

  • 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

  • 15 Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

  • 23 All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

  • 6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

  • 17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • 14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

  • 12 What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

  • 20 There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

  • 9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

  • 4 Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.

  • Job 20:8-9
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    8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

    9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

  • Prov 4:15-16
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    15 Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

    16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

  • 14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • 20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • 9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

  • 31 Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.

  • 12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • 4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

  • 21 For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

  • 16 Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.