Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place.

New American Standard Bible

“Do not long for the night,
When people vanish in their place.

King James Version

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Holman Bible

Do not long for the night
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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁאף 
Sha'aph 
Usage: 14

not the night
לילה ליל ליל 
Layil 
Usage: 233

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

19 Will he value thy riches? Nay not precious ore, nor all the forces of strength. 20 Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place. 21 Beware, do not turn unto iniquity, For, this, thou hast chosen rather than affliction.



Cross References

Job 34:20

In a moment, they die, even in the middle of the night, - A people are convulsed when they pass away, A mighty one is removed, without hand;

Job 34:25

Therefore, he observeth their works, - and overturneth them in a night, and they are crushed;

Exodus 12:29

And it came to pass, at midnight, that Yahweh, smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat upon his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive who was in the pit of his prison, - and every firstborn of beasts.

2 Kings 19:35

And it came to pass, during that night, that the messenger of Yahweh went forth, and smote, in the camp of the Assyrians, a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And, when men arose early in the morning, lo! they were all, dead bodies!

Job 3:20-21

Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul? -

Job 6:9

That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!

Job 7:15

So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than these my bones!

Job 14:13

Oh that, in hades, thou wouldst hide me! that thou wouldst keep me secret, until the turn of thine anger, that thou wouldst set for me a fixed time, and remember me:

Job 17:13-14

If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;

Proverbs 14:32

By his own wickedness, shall the lawless man, be thrust down, but the righteous, seeketh refuge in his integrity.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds be filled with a downpour, upon the earth, will they empty themselves, and, if a tree fall in the south or in the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there will it be found.

Daniel 5:30

In that night, was slain - Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans.

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him - Simple one! on this very night, they are asking, thy soul, from thee; The things, then, which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

Acts 1:25

To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas went aside, to go his way unto his own place.

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

For, ye yourselves, perfectly well know - that, the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so, cometh;

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