Parallel Verses

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.

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

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 your cry for help avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength? 20 “Do not long for the night,
When people vanish in their place.
21 Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

Cross References

Job 34:20

In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.

Job 34:25

Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.

Exodus 12:29

At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.

2 Kings 19:35

And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people 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

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 strangling and death rather than my bones.

Job 14:13

Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Job 17:13-14

If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

Acts 1:25

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place."

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

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