Job 36:20 “Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.”

Job 36:20

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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Cross references

“Desire”

Job 6:9 Job 7:15 Job 14:13 Job 3:20 Job 3:21 Job 17:13

Job 6:9 · BSB

that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

Job 7:15 · BSB

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

Job 14:13 · BSB

If 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!

Job 3:20 · BSB

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

Job 3:21 · BSB

who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,

Job 17:13 · BSB

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

“cut”

Exodus 12:29 2 Kings 19:35 Proverbs 14:32 Ecclesiastes 11:3 Daniel 5:30 Luke 12:20

Exodus 12:29 · BSB

Now 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 th…

2 Kings 19:35 · BSB

And 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!

Proverbs 14:32 · BSB

The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

Ecclesiastes 11:3 · BSB

If 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.

Daniel 5:30 · BSB

That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,

Luke 12:20 · BSB

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

Also

Job 34:25 Job 34:20

Job 34:25 · BSB

Therefore, He recognizes their deeds; He overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.

Job 34:20 · BSB

They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?

21Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.

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