Job 36:20

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

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  • 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,

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    4May that day be darkness; may God above not seek it, nor let light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

    6As for that night, let thick darkness seize it; let it not be joined to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

    7Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice enter it.

    8Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled to rouse Leviathan.

    9Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.

  • Job 36:18-19
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    18Beware that wrath does not entice you to scoffing, and let a great ransom not turn you aside.

    19Will your cry for help set things in order in distress, or will your exertions of strength suffice?

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    1Do not envy wicked people or desire to be with them.

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    21Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for you have preferred this to affliction.

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    20In a moment, they die; at midnight, people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are removed without human intervention.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Prov 3:25
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    25Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked when it comes.

  • Eccl 8:16
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to observe the work that is done on earth, even though people do not see sleep with their eyes day or night,

  • Job 3:21
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    21To those who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures.

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    12They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

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    13In disquieting dreams from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men,

  • Prov 24:18-20
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    18Otherwise, the LORD will see and disapprove, and He may turn His anger away from them.

    19Do not fret because of evildoers, and do not envy the wicked.

    20For the wicked have no future; the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.

  • Job 27:19-20
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    19The rich man lies down, but he will not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

    20Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a storm sweeps him away.

  • Isa 17:14
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    14In the evening, sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us.

  • Eccl 12:2
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    2Before the sun, light, moon, and stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4Do not allow sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

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    29He will no longer be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread out across the land.

  • Prov 7:9
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    9In the twilight, in the evening, in the dark of night and in deep darkness.

  • Job 33:15
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    15In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds,

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    15Do not lie in ambush, wicked person, at the house of the righteous; do not destroy their resting place.

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    6The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

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    4Do not wear yourself out trying to become rich; stop relying on your own understanding.

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    15Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn away from it and go on your way.

    16For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

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    4When I lie down, I think, 'When will I get up?' But the night drags on, and I am filled with tossing till dawn.

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    21For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

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    16Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the delight of your eyes with a single blow. But you shall not mourn or weep, and your tears shall not flow.