Job 36:20
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 36 connects to 10 cross-references. Elihu insists that God is mighty but does not despise anyone and delivers the afflicted by their affliction. He urges Job to beware of turning to iniquity and not to desire the night of peoples being cut off. He transitions …
Andere Übersetzungen
Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.
Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
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Querverweise
And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from …
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp …
Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty …
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, …
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;