Job 36:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Job 36:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 34:20
In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
Exodus 12:29
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Job 34:25
Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. …
2 Kings 19:35
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Dead (people)Death Dying God Guidance Life

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-23)

Elihu here comes more closely to Job; and, I. He tells him what God would have done for him before this if he had been duly humbled under his affliction. “We all know how ready God is to deliver the poor in his affliction (Job 36:15); he always was so. The poor in spirit, those that are of a broken and contrite heart, he looks upon with tenderness, and, when they are in affliction, is ready to hel…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Desire--pant for. Job had wished for death (Job 3:3-9, &c.). night--(Joh 9:4). when--rather, “whereby.” cut off--literally, “ascend,” as the corn cut and lifted upon the wagon or stack (Job 36:26); so “cut off,” “disappear.” in their place--literally, “under themselves”; so, without moving from their place, on the spot, suddenly (Job 40:12) [Maurer]. Umbreit’s translation: “To ascend (which is…