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 give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul? -

That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!

So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than these my bones!

Oh that, in hades, thou wouldst hide me! that thou wouldst keep me secret, until the turn of thine anger, that thou wouldst set for me a fixed time, and remember me:

If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;

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And it came to pass, at midnight, that Yahweh, smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat upon his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive who was in the pit of his prison, - and every firstborn of beasts.

And it came to pass, during that night, that the messenger of Yahweh went forth, and smote, in the camp of the Assyrians, a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And, when men arose early in the morning, lo! they were all, dead bodies!

By his own wickedness, shall the lawless man, be thrust down, but the righteous, seeketh refuge in his integrity.

If the clouds be filled with a downpour, upon the earth, will they empty themselves, and, if a tree fall in the south or in the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there will it be found.

In that night, was slain - Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans.

But God said unto him - Simple one! on this very night, they are asking, thy soul, from thee; The things, then, which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas went aside, to go his way unto his own place.

For, ye yourselves, perfectly well know - that, the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so, cometh;