Job 36:20
Don't desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 34:20 : 20 In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand.
- Job 34:25 : 25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
- Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, But in death, the righteous has a refuge.
- Eccl 11:3 : 3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; And if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, In the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
- Dan 5:30 : 30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
- Luke 12:20 : 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
- Acts 1:25 : 25 to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place."
- 1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
- Exod 12:29 : 29 It happened at midnight, that Yahweh 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 cattle.
- 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty-five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- Job 3:20-21 : 20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul, 21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
- Job 6:9 : 9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
- Job 7:15 : 15 So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones.
- Job 14:13 : 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, 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 look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness, 14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
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4 Let that day be darkness; Don't let God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine on it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it who curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
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18 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, Neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, Or all the might of your strength?
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1 Don't be envious of evil men; Neither desire to be with them:
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21 Take heed, don't regard iniquity; For this you have chosen rather than affliction.
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20 In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand.
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16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
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25 Don't be afraid of sudden fear, Neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:
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16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
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21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
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12 They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
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13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,
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18 Lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.
19 Don't fret yourself because of evildoers; Neither be envious of the wicked:
20 For there will be no reward to the evil man; And the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
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19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
20 Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.
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14 At evening, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.
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2 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, And the clouds return after the rain;
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4 Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
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29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
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9 In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
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15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, In slumbering on the bed;
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15 Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting-place:
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23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
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6 The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
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14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
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12 Who is someone who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good?
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20 "Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
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9 Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one;
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4 Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
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8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, Neither shall his place any more see him.
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15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
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14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
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20 Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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31 Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
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12 So man lies down and doesn't rise; Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
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4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
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21 For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?
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16 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.