Job 36:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:20 : 20 `In' a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.
  • Job 34:25 : 25 Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death `is' the righteous.
  • Eccl 11:3 : 3 If the thick clouds are full of rain, On the earth they empty `themselves'; And if a tree doth fall in the south or to the north, The place where the tree falleth, there it is.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
  • Acts 1:25 : 25 to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;'
  • 1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come, 3 for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail `doth' her who is with child, and they shall not escape;
  • Exod 12:29 : 29 And it cometh to pass, at midnight, that Jehovah hath smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive who `is' in the prison-house, and every first-born of beasts.
  • 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 And it cometh to pass, in that night, that a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred eighty and five thousand, and they rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them `are' dead corpses.
  • Job 3:20-21 : 20 Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul? 21 Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
  • Job 7:15 : 15 And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. 14 To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm.

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    4That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

    6That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.

    7Lo! that night -- let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it.

    8Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.

    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.

  • Job 36:18-19
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    1Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them.

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  • Job 24:16-17
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    16He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

    17When together, morning `is' to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

  • Prov 3:25
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    25Be not afraid of sudden fear, And of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh.

  • Eccl 8:16
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    16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

  • Job 3:21
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    21Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

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    12Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.

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

  • Prov 24:18-20
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    18Lest Jehovah see, and `it be' evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

    19Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked,

    20For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

  • Job 27:19-20
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    19Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.

    20Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

  • Isa 17:14
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    14At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This `is' the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!

  • Eccl 12:2
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    2While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

  • Job 15:29
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    29He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.

  • Prov 7:9
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    9In the twilight -- in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.

  • Job 33:15
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    15In a dream -- a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

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    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.

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    6The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

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    17For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

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    14At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

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    12Who `is' the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?

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    20For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.

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    9Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,

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    4Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

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    2 verses
    69%

    8As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

    9The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

  • Prov 4:15-16
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    15Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

    16For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble.

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    14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

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    20Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

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    9Better `is' the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

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    31Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways.

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    12And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.

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    4If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

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    16`Son of man, lo, I am taking from thee the desire of thine eyes by a stroke, and thou dost not mourn, nor weep, nor let thy tear come.