Job 36:20

In 11 translations

BSB

Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.

KJV

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

WEB

Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

ASV

Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.

LSV

Do not desire the night, || For the going up of peoples in their stead.

YLT

Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.

DBY

Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.

DRC

Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.

GNV

Be not carefull in the night, howe he destroyeth the people out of their place.

JPS

Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.

LXXE

And draw not forth all the mighty men by night, so that the people should go up instead of them.

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WLC

אַל־תִּשְׁאַ֥ף הַלָּ֑יְלָה לַעֲל֖וֹת עַמִּ֣ים תַּחְתָּֽם׃

LXX-Br

καὶ πάντας τοὺς κραταιοῦντας ἰσχὺν μὴ ἐξελκύσῃς τὴν νύκτα, τοῦ ἀναβῆναι λαοὺς ἀντʼ αὐτῶν,

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• Exodus 12:29Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among…
• 2 Kings 19:35And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
• Job 34:25Therefore, He recognizes their deeds; He overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
• Job 34:20They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
• Job 17:13–14If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
• Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
• Daniel 5:30That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
• Job 14:13If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
• Acts 1:25to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”
• Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
• Job 3:20–21Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
• Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
• Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and…
• Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

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