Job 36:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

Do not desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

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  • Job 34:20 : 20 In a moment they shall 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 knows their works, and He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.
  • Eccl 11:3 : 3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if the tree falls toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you; then whose shall those things be, which you have provided?
  • Acts 1:25 : 25 To take part in 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 you know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
  • Exod 12:29 : 29 And it came to pass at midnight that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
  • 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 And it happened that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty-five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.
  • Job 3:20-21 : 20 Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul; 21 Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hidden 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 chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, 'You are my father'; to the worm, 'You are my mother, and my sister.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 3:4-9
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    77%

    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

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

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

    7Behold, let that night be barren, let no joyful shout come in it.

    8Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up their lamentation.

    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

  • Job 36:18-19
    2 verses
    77%

    18Because there is wrath, beware lest he takes you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.

    19Will he value your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

  • Prov 24:1
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    1Do not be envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them.

  • Job 36:21
    73%

    21Take heed, do not regard iniquity: for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

  • Job 34:20
    72%

    20In a moment they shall die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight and pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    71%

    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Prov 3:25
    71%

    25Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes.

  • Eccl 8:16
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

  • Job 3:21
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    21Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

  • Job 17:12
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    12They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

  • Job 4:13
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    13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

  • Prov 24:18-20
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    70%

    18Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

    19Do not fret because of evil men, neither be envious of the wicked.

    20For there shall be no reward for the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

  • Job 27:19-20
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    70%

    19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

    20Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

  • Isa 17:14
    70%

    14And behold, at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of those who spoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Eccl 12:2
    70%

    2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain.

  • Prov 6:4
    70%

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

  • Job 15:29
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    29He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth continue, nor shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.

  • Prov 7:9
    69%

    9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night;

  • Job 33:15
    69%

    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

  • Prov 24:15
    69%

    15Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place.

  • Eccl 2:23
    69%

    23For all his days are sorrowful, and his work is burdensome; even at night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Job 24:14
    69%

    14The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.

  • Ps 34:12
    69%

    12Who is the man that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

  • Job 20:20
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    20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save anything of what he desired.

  • Prov 5:9
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    9Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:

  • Prov 23:4
    69%

    4Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own wisdom.

  • Job 20:8-9
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    8He shall fly away like a dream and shall not be found; yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place behold him any longer.

  • Prov 4:15-16
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    69%

    15Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it, and pass away.

    16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

  • Job 10:20
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    20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Eccl 6:9
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    9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire: this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Prov 3:31
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    31Do not envy the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

  • Job 14:12
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    12So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • Job 7:4
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    4When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' And I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.

  • Job 21:21
    68%

    21For what pleasure does he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

  • Ezek 24:16
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    16Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down.