Job 36:20

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Job 36:20

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

Desire

Job 17:13

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Desire

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;

Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

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And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.

And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.