Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Don't desire 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 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.
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 in distress, or all the might of your strength? 20 Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place. 21 Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
Names
Cross References
Job 34:20
In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
Job 34:25
Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Exodus 12:29
It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck 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 dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.
2 Kings 19:35
It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Job 3:20-21
"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
Job 6:9
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:15
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
Job 14:13
"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 17:13-14
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
Luke 12:20
"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared -- whose will they be?'
Acts 1:25
to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place."
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.