Job 36:20
New Living Translation
20 Do not long for the cover of night,
for that is when people will be destroyed.[a]
Footnotes
- 36:16-20 The meaning of the Hebrew in this passage is uncertain.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
New Living Translation
2 For you know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. 3 When people are saying, “Everything is peaceful and secure,” then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman’s labor pains begin. And there will be no escape.
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Job 34:25
New Living Translation
25 He knows what they do,
and in the night he overturns and destroys them.
Job 34:20
New Living Translation
20 In a moment they die.
In the middle of the night they pass away;
the mighty are removed without human hand.
2 Kings 19:35
New Living Translation
35 That night the angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians[a] woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere.
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- 19:35 Hebrew When they.
Exodus 12:29
New Living Translation
29 And that night at midnight, the Lord struck down all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn son of the prisoner in the dungeon. Even the firstborn of their livestock were killed.
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Acts 1:25
New Living Translation
25 as an apostle to replace Judas in this ministry, for he has deserted us and gone where he belongs.”
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Luke 12:20
New Living Translation
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’
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Daniel 5:30
New Living Translation
30 That very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian[a] king, was killed.[b]
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Ecclesiastes 11:3
New Living Translation
3 When clouds are heavy, the rains come down.
Whether a tree falls north or south, it stays where it falls.
Proverbs 14:32
New Living Translation
32 The wicked are crushed by disaster,
but the godly have a refuge when they die.
Job 17:13-14
New Living Translation
13 What if I go to the grave[a]
and make my bed in darkness?
14 What if I call the grave my father,
and the maggot my mother or my sister?
Job 14:13
New Living Translation
13 “I wish you would hide me in the grave[a]
and forget me there until your anger has passed.
But mark your calendar to think of me again!
Footnotes
- 14:13 Hebrew in Sheol.
Job 7:15
New Living Translation
15 I would rather be strangled—
rather die than suffer like this.
Job 6:9
New Living Translation
9 I wish he would crush me.
I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.
Job 3:20-21
New Living Translation
20 “Oh, why give light to those in misery,
and life to those who are bitter?
21 They long for death, and it won’t come.
They search for death more eagerly than for hidden treasure.
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