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 he esteem thy riches? No, not gold, nor all the forces of strength. 20 “Do not long for the night,
When people vanish in their place.
21 Take heed, do not regard iniquity, to choose it rather than poverty.



Cross References

Job 34:20

In a moment they shall die, and the peoples shall be troubled at midnight and shall pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

Job 34:25

Therefore, he shall cause their works to be notorious, when he shall overturn them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

Exodus 12:29

And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the animals.

2 Kings 19:35

And it came to pass that night that the angel of the LORD went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, the corpses of the dead.

Job 3:20-21

Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Job 6:9

Even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Job 7:15

And my soul thought it better to be strangled and desired death more than my bones.

Job 14:13

O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me covered until thy wrath is past, that thou would appoint me a set time and remember me!

Job 17:13-14

If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

Proverbs 14:32

For his wickedness shall the wicked be cast out, but the righteous in his death has hope.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full of rain, they shall empty themselves upon the earth; and if the tree falls toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall remain.

Daniel 5:30

That same night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was slain.

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast stored up?

Acts 1:25

that he may take the lot or inheritance of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas rebelled that he might go to his own place.

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

For ye know well that the day of the Lord shall come as a thief in the night.

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