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Job 36:20 King James Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Desire--pant for. Job had wished for death (Job 3:3-9, &c.).

night-- (Joh 9:4).

when--rather, "whereby."

cut off--literally, "ascend," as the corn cut and lifted upon the wagon or stack (Job 36:26); so "cut off," "disappear."

in their place--literally, "under themselves"; so, without moving from their place, on the spot, suddenly (Job 40:12) [MAURER]. UMBREIT'S translation: "To ascend (which is really, as thou wilt find to thy cost, to descend) to the people below" (literally, "under themselves"), answers better to the parallelism and the Hebrew. Thou pantest for death as desirable, but it is a "night" or region of darkness; thy fancied ascent (amelioration) will prove a descent (deterioration) (Job 10:22); therefore desire it not.
 
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22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.