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Job 36:20

World English Bible

Don’t desire the night,
when people are cut off in their place.

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Job 36:20 in other translations

Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.

Job 36:20 · American Standard Version

Job 36:20 in context

  1. 18Don’t let riches entice you to wrath,
    neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
  2. 19Would your wealth sustain you in distress,
    or all the might of your strength?
  3. 20Don’t desire the night,
    when people are cut off in their place.
  4. 21Take heed, don’t regard iniquity;
    for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
  5. 22Behold, God is exalted in his power.
    Who is a teacher like him?