Job 36:20

Easy To Read Version

Don’t wish for the night to come.\par People try to disappear into the night.\par \{They think they can hide from God.\} {\cf2\super [76]} \par

Cross References

2 Kings 19:35

That night, the angel of the Lord went out and killed 185,000 people in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up in the morning, they saw all the dead bodies.

Job 14:13

“I wish you would hide me in my grave.\par I wish you would hide me there,\par until your anger is gone.\par Then you could pick a time\par to remember me.\par

Job 34:20

People can suddenly die,\par in the middle of the night.\par People become sick and pass away.\par Even powerful people die\par for no apparent reason.\par

Job 34:25

So God knows what people do.\par That is why God will defeat evil people\par over night and destroy them.\par

Job 36:19

Your money can’t help you now.\par And powerful people can’t help you either!\par

Job 6:9

I wish God would crush me,\par just go ahead and kill me!\par

Job 7:15

So I prefer to be choked to death\par than to live.\par

Exodus 12:29

At midnight, the Lord killed all the firstborn sons in Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh (who ruled Egypt) to the firstborn son of the prisoner sitting in jail. Also all the firstborn animals died.

Proverbs 14:32

During times of trouble, evil people are defeated. But good people win a victory even during death.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

\{There are some things you can be sure of.\} If clouds are full of rain, then they will pour water on the earth. If a tree falls—to the south or to the north—then it will stay where it falls.

Daniel 5:30

That very same night, Belshazzar, king of the Babylonian people, was killed.

Luke 12:20

But God said to that man, ‘Foolish man! Tonight you will die. So what about the things you prepared for yourself? Who will get those things now?’