Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
You must not long for the night, to cut off people {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.
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 Will your cry for help sustain [you] without distress, or all [the] efforts of [your] strength? 20 You must not long for the night, to cut off people {in their place}. 21 Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.
Names
Cross References
Job 34:20
[In] a moment they die, and [in] the middle of [the] night [the] people are shaken, and they pass away, and they take away [the] mighty {effortlessly}.
Job 34:25
Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns [them] [in the] night {so that} they are crushed.
Exodus 12:29
{And} in the middle of the night, Yahweh struck all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who [was] in the prison house and every firstborn of an animal.
2 Kings 19:35
It happened in that night that an angel of Yahweh went out, and he struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. When they got up early in the morning, look! All of them [were] dead corpses.
Job 3:20-21
"Why does he give light to one in misery and life to [those] bitter of soul,
Job 6:9
that God would decide that he would crush me, [that] he would let loose his hand and {kill me}.
Job 7:15
So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.
Job 14:13
"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.
Job 17:13-14
If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the darkness,
Proverbs 14:32
By his evildoing, the wicked will be overthrown, and the righteous will find refuge in his death.
Ecclesiastes 11:3
When the clouds are full, they empty rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or whether it falls to the north, the place where the tree falls--there it will be.
Daniel 5:30
{That same night} Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
Acts 1:25
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to depart to his own place."
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
for [you] yourselves well know that the day of the Lord is coming in the [same] way as a thief in the night.