Job 36:20

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

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“Will your wealth [be sufficient to] keep you from [the confinement of] distress,
Or will all the force of your strength do it?
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“Do not long for the night,
When people vanish from their places.
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“Take heed and be careful, do not turn to wickedness,
For you have chosen this [the vice of complaining against God] rather than [learning from] affliction.

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Job 34:20

“In a moment they die, even at midnight
The people are shaken and pass away,
And the powerful are taken away without a [human] hand.

Job 34:25

“Therefore He knows of their works,
And He overthrows them in the night,
So that they are crushed and destroyed.

Exodus 12:29

Now it happened at midnight that the Lord struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

2 Kings 19:35

Then it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down 185,000 [men] in the camp of the Assyrians; when the survivors got up early in the morning, behold, all [185,000] of them were dead.

Job 3:20-21

“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,

Job 6:9

“I wish that it would please God to crush me,
That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.

Job 7:15

So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pain.

Job 14:13

“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]!

Job 17:13-14

“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is overthrown through his wrongdoing,
But the righteous has hope and confidence and a refuge [with God] even in death.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full [of rain], they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it lies.

Daniel 5:30

During that same night Belshazzar the [last] Chaldean king was slain [by troops of the invading army].

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own all the things you have prepared?’

Acts 1:25

to occupy this ministry and apostleship which Judas left to go to his own place [of evil].”

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the [return of the] Lord is coming just as a thief [comes unexpectedly and suddenly] in the night.