Job 36:20
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
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- Job 34:20 : 20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
- Job 34:25 : 25 Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth [them] in the night, so that they are destroyed.
- Prov 14:32 : 32 ¶ The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
- Eccl 11:3 : 3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty [themselves] upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
- Dan 5:30 : 30 ¶ In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
- Luke 12:20 : 20 ‹But God said unto him,› [Thou] ‹fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?›
- Acts 1:25 : 25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, 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 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
- Exod 12:29 : 29 ¶ And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that [was] in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
- 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 ¶ And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses.
- Job 3:20-21 : 20 ¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; 21 Which 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 destroy 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 my life.
- Job 14:13 : 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, 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 wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
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4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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18 Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with [his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
19 Will he esteem thy riches? [no], not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
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1 ¶ Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
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21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
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20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
- Job 24:16-172 verses71%
16 In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17 For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.
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25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
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16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also [there is that] neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
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21 Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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12 They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
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13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
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18 Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
19 ¶ Fret not thyself because of evil [men], neither be thou envious at the wicked;
20 For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
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19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.
20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
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14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
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2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
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4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
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29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
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9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
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15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
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15 ¶ Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
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23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
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6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.
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14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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12 What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days, that he may see good?
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20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
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9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
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4 ¶ Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
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8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9 The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
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15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.
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14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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20 [Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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9 Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
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12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
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4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
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21 For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
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16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.