Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Do not long for the night,
When people vanish from their places.
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.
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 [be sufficient to] keep you from [the confinement of] distress,
Or will all the force of your strength do it?
“Do not long for the night,
When people vanish from their places.
“Take heed and be careful, do not turn to wickedness,
For you have chosen this [the vice of complaining against God] rather than [learning from] affliction.
Names
Cross References
Job 34:20
“In a moment they die, even at midnight
The people are shaken and pass away,
And the powerful are taken away without a [human] hand.
Job 34:25
“Therefore He knows of their works,
And He overthrows them in the night,
So that they are crushed and destroyed.
Exodus 12:29
Now it happened at midnight that the Lord struck 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
2 Kings 19:35
Then it came to pass that night, that the
Job 3:20-21
“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,
Job 6:9
“I wish that it would please God to crush me,
That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.
Job 7:15
So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my
Job 14:13
“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]!
Job 17:13-14
“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is overthrown through his wrongdoing,
But the righteous has hope and confidence and a refuge [with God] even in death.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
If the clouds are full [of rain], they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it lies.
Daniel 5:30
During that same
Luke 12:20
Acts 1:25
to occupy this ministry and apostleship which Judas left to go to his own place [of evil].”
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the [return of the] Lord is coming just as a thief [comes unexpectedly and suddenly] in the night.