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Job 36

Job 36:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Desire
sha'aph (Hebrew #7602)
to inhale eagerly; figuratively, to cover; by implication, to be angry; also to hasten
KJV usage: desire (earnestly), devour, haste, pant, snuff up, swallow up.
Pronounce: shaw-af'
Origin: a primitive root
not the night
layil (Hebrew #3915)
also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage: ((mid-))night (season).
Pronounce: lah'-yil
Origin: or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}
, when people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
are cut off
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
in their place.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Desire.
Job 3:20‑21• 20Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
 21Who long for death, and it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; (Job 3:20‑21)
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Job 6:9• 9And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! (Job 6:9)
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Job 7:15• 15So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones. (Job 7:15)
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Job 14:13• 13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me,-- (Job 14:13)
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Job 17:13‑14• 13If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
 14I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister! (Job 17:13‑14)
cut.
Ex. 12:29• 29And it came to pass that at midnight Jehovah smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle. (Ex. 12:29)
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2 Kings 19:35• 35And it came to pass that night, that an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies. (2 Kings 19:35)
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Prov. 14:32• 32The wicked is driven away by his evil-doing; but the righteous trusteth, even in his death. (Prov. 14:32)
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Eccl. 11:3• 3If 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 it shall be. (Eccl. 11:3)
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Dan. 5:30• 30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. (Dan. 5:30)
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Luke 12:20• 20But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared? (Luke 12:20)
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Acts 1:25• 25to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place. (Acts 1:25)
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1 Thess. 5:2‑3• 2for ye know perfectly well yourselves, that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief by night.
 3When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape. (1 Thess. 5:2‑3)
• He had longed for the night of death to come upon him, as it eventually does upon all the nations of the earth. (“Job 32-37” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Desire not the night, when peoples are cut offf from their place.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "taken up."