Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in 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.
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 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 If your cry for help is set in order, then it will not be in distress, but with all the forces of strength. 20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. 21 Beware, do not turn to iniquity; for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
Names
Cross References
Job 34:20
In a moment they die, and a people are shaken at midnight and pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without a hand.
Job 34:25
Therefore He knows their works, and He overturns in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Exodus 12:29
And it happened at midnight Jehovah struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive that was in the prison; also all the first-born of cattle.
2 Kings 19:35
And it happened that night, the Angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And they arose early in the morning, and behold, they were all dead bodies.
Job 3:20-21
Why is light given to one who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that He would loose His hand and cut me off!
Job 7:15
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my life.
Job 14:13
Who will grant that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me?
Job 17:13-14
If I wait for the grave as my home, I have made my bed in the darkness;
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
If the clouds are full of rain, they empty on the earth; and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul shall be required of you, then whose shall be those things which you have prepared?
Acts 1:25
to take the share of this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell, to go to his own place.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.