Job 36:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.”
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BSBPD
“Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 36:20 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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 the livestock.
- 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 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
- Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
- 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!
- Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
- 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 34:25Therefore, He recognizes their deeds; He overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
- 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.
- Daniel 5:30That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
- 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?’
- Acts 1:25to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
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