Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from 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.
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 he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength! 20 Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place. 21 Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Names
Cross References
Job 34:20
In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away; and the strong are taken away without hand.
Job 34:25
Since he knoweth their actions; and he overthroweth them in the night, and they are crushed.
Exodus 12:29
And it came to pass that at midnight Jehovah smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.
2 Kings 19:35
And it came to pass that night, that an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.
Job 3:20-21
Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
Job 6:9
And 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 chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
Job 14:13
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, --
Job 17:13-14
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away by his evil-doing; but the righteous trusteth, even in his death.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Daniel 5:30
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
Acts 1:25
to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
for ye know perfectly well yourselves, that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief by night.