Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Don't long for night, when people vanish 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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not pant after the night, for taking up peoples in 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 your wealth sustain you when you're in distress, despite your most powerful efforts? 20 Don't long for night, when people vanish in their place. 21 Be careful! Don't turn to evil, because of this you will be tried by more than affliction.
Names
Cross References
Job 34:20
"They die suddenly, in the middle of the night; people suffer seizures and pass away; even valiant men can be taken away and not by human hands.
Job 34:25
Thus he acknowledges their behavior, and overcomes them; when night time comes, they are crushed.
Exodus 12:29
And so at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
2 Kings 19:35
That very night, the angel of the LORD went out to the camp of the Assyrian army and killed 185,000 men. Early the next morning, when the army of Israel arose, all 185,000 soldiers were dead.
Job 3:20-21
"Why does God give light to the sufferer or life to the bitter person:
Job 6:9
that God would just be willing to crush me; that he would let loose and eliminate me!
Job 7:15
I would rather die by strangulation than continue living.
Job 14:13
"Won't you keep me safe in the afterlife? Conceal me until your anger subsides. Set an appointment for me, then remember me.
Job 17:13-14
"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but the righteous person has a place of safety in death.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
If the clouds are full of rain, they will pour out on the earth; if a tree falls toward the south or the north, wherever it falls, there it will lay.
Daniel 5:30
That night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was killed,
Luke 12:20
But God told him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?'
Acts 1:25
to serve in this office of apostle, from which Judas left to go to his own place."
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
for you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.