Verse 20

Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:20 : 20 In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.
  • Job 34:25 : 25 Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 An evil person will be thrown down through his wickedness, but a righteous person takes refuge in his integrity.
  • Eccl 11:3 : 3 If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves on the earth, and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, the tree will lie wherever it falls.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
  • Acts 1:25 : 25 to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
  • 1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night. 3 Now when they are saying,“There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.
  • Exod 12:29 : 29 The Deliverance from Egypt It happened at midnight– the LORD attacked 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 prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
  • 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 That very night the LORD’s angel went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses.
  • Job 3:20-21 : 20 Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter, 21 to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,
  • Job 6:9 : 9 And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
  • Job 7:15 : 15 so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, 14 If I cry to corruption,‘You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘My mother,’ or‘My sister,’