Job 36:20

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Job 36:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.

19 Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?

20 Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.

21 Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.

22 Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?

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Job 3:20

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

Job 3:21

who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,

Job 6:9

that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

Job 7:15

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

Job 14:13

If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 17:14

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Exodus 12:29

Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.

2 Kings 19:35

And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

Acts 1:25

to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.