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Job 36:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Desire not the night, when people (rather, peoples) are cut off in their place. This is an allusion to Job's repeatedly expressed desire to be cut off at once, and laid in the grave (Job 6:9; Job 7:15; Job 14:13, etc.

). Elihu holds that such a desire is wrongful. It certainly implies a want of complete resignation to the Divine will.

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