Job 36:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Desire not the night, When people are cut off in their place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their places;

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Don’t wish for the night when people vanish from their place.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Do not prolong the night, even if people rise on their behalf.

Job 36:20 Cross References

Job 34:25

Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.

Job 34:20

In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.

2 Kings 19:35

That very night the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.

Exodus 12:29

At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the livestock.

Acts 1:25

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

When clouds are full, they empty rain on the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.

Job 14:13

O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

Job 7:15

so that I would choose strangling and death rather than this body.

Job 6:9

that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Job 36:19

Will your cry avail to keep you from distress, or will all the force of your strength?