Verse 20

Don't desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.

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;'