Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 36:20

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 36:20 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 36:20. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Elihu, it means we should not wish for bad things, like the night, because that's when some people might have to leave and not be with us anymore. It's a reminder to hope for good things instead of bad ones.

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

Contradiction with Exodus 20:13

This verse states "Thou shalt not kill," which contradicts the idea of desiring death for oneself as seen in Job 36:20.

Exodus 20:13: Thou shalt not kill.

Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

This passage emphasizes that your body is a temple and belongs to God, thus contradicting any notion of desiring to end one's life.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20: What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Contradiction with Matthew 6:34

Advises not to worry about tomorrow, which contradicts focusing on death or desiring it as in Job 36:20.

Matthew 6:34: Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 7:17

Warns against being overly wicked or foolish and dying before your time, opposing Job 36:20's notion of desiring death.

Ecclesiastes 7:17: Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? [before...: Heb. not in thy time?]

Contradiction with Romans 14:8

Proclaims that whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord, suggesting that desiring death (as seen in Job 36:20) contradicts relinquishing control to God.

Romans 14:8: For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
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