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Job 36:20 — King James Version← Study notes

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.


Job 36:20Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 36:206 words
HebrewMeaning
אַלʾal
may notparticleH408
neither · never · no · nor ···
תִּשְׁאַ֥ףtišəʾap
you long forverbH7602
devour · haste · pant · snuff up ···
הַ/לָּ֑יְלָהhalāyəlāh
the nightparticleH3915
לַ/עֲל֖וֹתlaʿălwōt
to go uppronH5927
ascend up · at once · break · bring ···
עַמִּ֣יםʿamiym
peoplesnounH5971
men · nation · people
תַּחְתָּֽ/םtaḥətām
in place theirpronH8478
beneath · flat · in · place ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 36:20

Prolong not the night, that people should go up for them. For the night is indeed prolonged, when the sorrow, that springs from temptation, is not ended by the rising up of consolation. The night is protracted, because the sorrow of the mind is prolonged by confused thoughts. For whilst the mind, placed in temptation, considers that it is driven away from the former solidity of its virtue, it is blinded by superinduced sorrows, as by a kind of gloom. And its eye is closed to…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 26 §82
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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