Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not pant after the night, for taking up peoples in their place.
New American Standard Bible
When people
King James Version
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Holman Bible
when nations will disappear from their places.
International Standard Version
Don't long for night, when people vanish in their place.
A Conservative Version
Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
American Standard Version
Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.
Amplified
“Do not long for the night,
When people vanish from their places.
Darby Translation
Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.
King James 2000
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You must not long for the night, to cut off people {in their place}.
Modern King James verseion
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Prolong not thou the time, till there come a night for thee, to set other people in thy stead.
NET Bible
Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.
New Heart English Bible
Do not desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place.
Webster
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
World English Bible
Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Youngs Literal Translation
Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
Interlinear
Sha'aph
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 36:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Greatness
19 Will he value thy riches? not gold and all the powers of thy strength. 20 Thou shalt not pant after the night, for taking up peoples in their place. 21 Watch thyself; thou shalt not turn to iniquity: for upon this thou didst choose rather than affliction.
Names
Cross References
Job 34:20
In a moment shall they die, and the middle of the night shall the people be moved and pass away: and the mighty shall be removed with not a hand.
Job 34:25
For this he will know their work, and he turned the night, and they will be crushed.
Exodus 12:29
And it will be in the middle of the night, and Jehovah struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting upon his throne, to the first-born of the captive which is in the house of the pit; and every first-born of the cattle.
2 Kings 19:35
And it will be in that night the messenger of Jehovah will strike in the camp of Assur, a hundred eighty and five thousand; and they will rise early in the morning, and behold, all of them dead corpses.
Job 3:20-21
Wherefore shall light be given to him toiling, and life to the bitter of soul?
Job 6:9
And God will, and he will crush me; will he let his hand remain, and will he cut me off?
Job 7:15
And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones.
Job 14:13
Who will give thou wilt hide me in hades? wilt thou cover me till the turning away of thine anger? wilt thou set for me a limit, and wilt thou remember me?
Job 17:13-14
If I shall wait, hades is my house: in darkness I spread my bed.
Proverbs 14:32
The unjust one shall be driven away in his evil: and the just one trusted in his death.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
If the clouds shall be filled with rain, they shall pour out upon the earth: and if the tree shall fall in the south or in the north, the place the tree shall fall, there it shall be.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was killed.
Luke 12:20
And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?
Acts 1:25
To take the lot of this service and sending forth, from which Judas passed by, to go to his own place.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes.