Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Do not long for the night
when nations will disappear from their places.

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.

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 Can your wealth or all your physical exertion
keep you from distress?
20 Do not long for the night
when nations will disappear from their places.
21 Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity,
for that is why you have been tested by affliction.

Cross References

Job 34:20

They die suddenly in the middle of the night;
people shudder, then pass away.
Even the mighty are removed without effort.

Job 34:25

Therefore, He recognizes their deeds
and overthrows them by night, and they are crushed.

Exodus 12:29

Now at midnight the Lord struck every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock.

2 Kings 19:35

That night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

Job 3:20-21

Why is light given to one burdened with grief,
and life to those whose existence is bitter,

Job 6:9

that He would decide to crush me,
to unleash His power and cut me off!

Job 7:15

so that I prefer strangling
death rather than life in this body.

Job 14:13

If only You would hide me in Sheol
and conceal me until Your anger passes.
If only You would appoint a time for me
and then remember me.

Job 17:13-14

If I await Sheol as my home,
spread out my bed in darkness,

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin,
but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain on the earth;
whether a tree falls to the south or the north,
the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,

Luke 12:20

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Acts 1:25

to take the place in this apostolic service that Judas left to go to his own place.”

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

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