Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
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.
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.
Interlinear
Sha'aph
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 36:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Greatness
19 Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power. 20 Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead. 21 Take heed -- do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than on affliction.
Names
Cross References
Job 34:20
In a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.
Job 34:25
Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.
Exodus 12:29
And it cometh to pass, at midnight, that Jehovah hath smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive who is in the prison-house, and every first-born of beasts.
2 Kings 19:35
And it cometh to pass, in that night, that a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred eighty and five thousand, and they rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them are dead corpses.
Job 3:20-21
Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
Job 6:9
That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
Job 7:15
And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
Job 14:13
O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.
Job 17:13-14
If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
Proverbs 14:32
In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
If the thick clouds are full of rain, On the earth they empty themselves; And if a tree doth fall in the south or to the north, The place where the tree falleth, there it is.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,
Luke 12:20
And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
Acts 1:25
to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;'
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,