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 the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts?

That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down.

that my soul wisheth rather to be strangled, and my bones to be dead.

O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me.

Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark.

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And at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his seat, unto the firstborn of the captive that was in prison, and all firstborn of the cattle.

And the selfsame night the Angel of the LORD went out and smote, in the host of the Assyrians, a hundred and four score and five thousand. And when they were up early in the morning: behold, they were all dead corpses.

The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.

When the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth. And when the tree falleth, whether it be toward the South or North, in what place soever it fall, there it lieth.

The very same night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain,

But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'

that the one may take the room of this ministration, and apostleship from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place."

for ye your selves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall come even as a thief in the night.