Parallel Verses
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.
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
Would your wealth or even all your mighty efforts sustain you so you would not be in distress?
20
When people
Names
Cross References
Job 34:20
They die suddenly in the middle of the night. People have seizures and pass away. Mighty people are taken away but not by human hands.
Job 34:25
He knows what they do, so he overthrows them at night, and they are crushed.
Exodus 12:29
At midnight Jehovah killed every firstborn male in Egypt from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who ruled the land to the firstborn son of the prisoner in jail, and also every firstborn animal.
2 Kings 19:35
It happened that night. Jehovah's angel killed one hundred and eighty five thousand soldiers in the Assyrian camp. The next morning the Judeans saw all the corpses.
Job 3:20-21
Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in heart?
Job 6:9
Oh that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut me off!
Job 7:15
I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this.
Job 14:13
If only you would hide me in the grave (Sheol) and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set a time for me and then remember me!
Job 17:13-14
Should I look for the grave as my home and make 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 themselves upon the earth. If the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will be.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?'
Acts 1:25
Which of these men should assume this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For you know perfectly that the Day of Jehovah will come like a thief in the night. (Zephaniah 1:14)