Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.
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 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.
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 Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts? 20 Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes. 21 Take heed, do not turn to evil, for because of this you have been tested by affliction.
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Cross References
Job 34:20
In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.
Job 34:25
Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
Exodus 12:29
It happened at midnight -- the Lord attacked 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 prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
2 Kings 19:35
That very night the Lord's messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses.
Job 3:20-21
"Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
Job 6:9
And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
Job 7:15
so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
Job 14:13
"O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
Job 17:13-14
If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves on the earth, and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, the tree will lie wherever it falls.
Daniel 5:30
And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'
Acts 1:25
to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place."
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night.