Job 36:20

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Spend not the night in carefull thoughtes, how he destroyeth some, and bringeth other in their place.

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  • Job 34:20 : 20 In the twinckling of an eye shall they dye, and at midnight when the people and the tirantes rage, then shall they perishe, & be taken away without handes.
  • Job 34:25 : 25 Therefore shall he declare their workes: he shall turne the night, and they shalbe destroyed.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The vngodly is cast away for his iniquitie: but the ryghteous hath a good hope, euen in death.
  • Eccl 11:3 : 3 When the cloudes are full, they powre out raine vpon the earth. And when the tree falleth, whether it be towarde the south or north, in what place soeuer it fall, there it lieth.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 The very same night was Balthasar the king of the Chaldees slaine.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God sayde vnto hym: Thou foole, this nyght wyll they fetch awaye thy soule againe fro thee: Then whose shall those thynges be, which thou hast prouided?
  • Acts 1:25 : 25 That he may take the rowme of this ministerie and Apostleship, from which Iudas by transgression fell, that he myght go to his owne place.
  • 1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 For ye your selues knowe perfectlye that the day of the Lord shall so come euen as a theefe in the nyght. 3 For when they shal say peace & safetie, then shall sodeyne destruction come vppon them, as sorowe vpon a woman with chylde, and they shall not escape.
  • Exod 12:29 : 29 And at mydnyght the Lorde smote the first borne in the lande of Egypt, fro the first borne of Pharao that sate on his seate, vntyl the first borne of the captiue that was in prison, and all the firste gendred of cattell.
  • 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 And it came to passe, that the selfe same night the angell of the Lorde went out, and smote in the hoast of the Assyrians an hundred fourescore & fyue thousand: And when the remnaunt were vp early in the morning, beholde they were all dead coarses.
  • Job 3:20-21 : 20 Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes? 21 Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures:
  • Job 6:9 : 9 O that God would begin and smite me, that he would let his hand go and take me cleane away:
  • Job 7:15 : 15 That my soule wisheth rather to perishe and die, then my bones to remayne.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 Though I tary neuer so much, yet the graue is my house, & I haue made my bed in the darke. 14 I saide to corruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, you are my mother and my sister.

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  • Job 3:4-9
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    4 The same day be turned to darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it:

    5 But let it be stayned with darknesse and the shadowe of death, let the dimme cloude fall vpon it, whiche may make it terrible as a most bitter day.

    6 Let the darke storme ouercome that night, and let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yere, nor counted in the number of the monethes.

    7 Desolate be that night, and without gladnesse.

    8 Let them that curse the day, and that be redy to rayse vp mourning, geue it also their curse.

    9 Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it, let it loke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day:

  • Job 36:18-19
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    18 And seeing there is wrath with God, beware lest he take thee away in thy wealth, & all that thou hast to redeeme thee can not deliuer thee.

    19 Thinkest thou that he wyll regarde thy riches? he shall not care for golde, nor for all them that excell in strength.

  • 1 Be not thou enuious to folow wicked men, and desire not to be among them:

  • 21 But beware that thou turne not aside to wickednesse and sinne, which hitherto thou hast chosen more then affliction.

  • 20 In the twinckling of an eye shall they dye, and at midnight when the people and the tirantes rage, then shall they perishe, & be taken away without handes.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16 In the darke they digge through houses, whiche they marked for them selues in the day time: they knowe not the light.

    17 The morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death,

  • 25 Thou shalt not be afraide of any sodayne feare, neither for the violent rushing in of the vngodly when it commeth.

  • 16 And so I applied my minde to learne wysdome, and to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde, and that of suche a fashion, that I suffred not mine eyes to sleepe neither day nor night.

  • 21 Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures:

  • 12 Chaunging the night into day, and the light approching into darkenesse.

  • 13 In the thoughtes and visions of the night when sleepe commeth on men,

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    18 Lest the Lorde when he seeth it be angry, and turne his wrath from hym vnto thee.

    19 Fret not thy selfe because of the malitious, neither be enuious at the wicked:

    20 For the wicked shall haue no posteritie, and the candle of the vngodly shalbe put out.

  • Job 27:19-20
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    19 When the riche man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers, they opened their eyes, and he was gone.

    20 Terrour taketh holde vpon hym as a water fludde, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.

  • 14 At euen beholde there is trouble, and or euer it be mornyng lo it is gone: This is the portion of them that oppresse vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.

  • 2 Before the sunne, the light, the moone, and starres be darkened, and or the cloudes turne agayne after the rayne:

  • 4 Let not thyne eyes sleepe, nor thyne eye liddes slumber.

  • 29 He shall not be riche, neither shall his substaunce continue, neither shal the prosperitie thereof be prolonged vpon earth.

  • 9 In the twylight of the euening, when it began nowe to be night and darke:

  • 15 In dreames and visions of the night, when slumbring commeth vpon men that they fall asleepe in their beddes,

  • 15 Laye no priuie wayte (O wicked man) against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.

  • 23 But heauinesse, sorowe, and disquietnesse all the dayes of his life? Insomuch that his heart can not rest in the nyght: This is also a vayne thyng.

  • 6 The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • 17 Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face.

  • 14 The murtherer ryseth early and killeth the poore and needy, and in the night is as a thiefe?

  • 12 What man is he that listeth to liue: and woulde fayne see good dayes.

  • 20 Because he could not perceaue when his belly was well, through his greedie desire he shall not escape.

  • 9 That thou geue not thy honour vnto other, and thy yeres to the cruell:

  • 4 Take not ouer great trauayle to be riche, beware of suche a purpose.

  • Job 20:8-9
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    8 He shall vanishe as a dreame, so that he can no more be founde, and shal passe away as a vision in the night.

    9 So that the eye which sawe him before, shal haue no more sight of him, and his place shall know him no more.

  • Prov 4:15-16
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    15 Abhorre it and go not therein, depart aside, and passe ouer by it.

    16 For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme.

  • 14 They runne into darknesse by fayre day, and grope at the noone day as in the night.

  • 20 Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

  • 9 The cleare sight of the eye, is better then that the soule shoulde walke after desires of the lust: Howbeit, this is also a vayne thyng, and a disquietnesse of mynde.

  • 31 Folowe not a wicked man, and chose none of his wayes:

  • 12 So man after he is asleepe ryseth not, he shall not wake tyll the heauens be no more, nor rise out of his sleepe.

  • 4 When I layde me downe to sleepe, I sayde, O when shall I arise? and measuring the euening, I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day.

  • 21 For what careth he for his house after his death, when the number of his monethes is cut short?

  • 16 Thou sonne of man, behold I wil take away from thee the pleasure of thyne eyes with a plague, yet shalt thou neither mourne nor weepe, neither shal thy teares run downe.