Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off 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.
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 thy cry not avail in distress, or all the forces of strength? 20 Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off in their place. 21 Take heed. Do not turn to iniquity, for thou have fixed on this because of affliction.
Names
Cross References
Job 34:20
In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand.
Job 34:25
Therefore he takes knowledge of their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Exodus 12:29
And it came to pass at midnight, that LORD smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of cattl
2 Kings 19:35
And it came to pass that night, that the agent of LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Job 3:20-21
Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:15
so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.
Job 14:13
O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!
Job 17:13-14
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Proverbs 14:32
An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth, and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?
Acts 1:25
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas transgressed to go to his own place.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of Lord so comes as a thief in the night.