Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Prolong not thou the time, till there come a night for thee, to set other people in thy stead.

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.

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 Hath God ordained then, that the glorious life of thee, and all such mighty men should not be put down? 20 Prolong not thou the time, till there come a night for thee, to set other people in thy stead. 21 But beware that thou turn not aside to wickedness and sin, which hitherto thou hast chosen more than meekness.

Cross References

Job 34:20

In the twinkling of an eye shall they be slain: and at midnight, when the people and the tyrants rage, then shall they perish, and be taken away without hands.

Job 34:25

For he knoweth their evil and dark works: therefore shall they be destroyed.

Exodus 12:29

And at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his seat, unto the firstborn of the captive that was in prison, and all firstborn of the cattle.

2 Kings 19:35

And the selfsame night the Angel of the LORD went out and smote, in the host of the Assyrians, a hundred and four score and five thousand. And when they were up early in the morning: behold, they were all dead corpses.

Job 3:20-21

"Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts?

Job 6:9

That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down.

Job 7:15

that my soul wisheth rather to be strangled, and my bones to be dead.

Job 14:13

O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me.

Job 17:13-14

Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark.

Proverbs 14:32

The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

When the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth. And when the tree falleth, whether it be toward the South or North, in what place soever it fall, there it lieth.

Daniel 5:30

The very same night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain,

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'

Acts 1:25

that the one may take the room of this ministration, and apostleship from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place."

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

for ye your selves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall come even as a thief in the night.

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