Job 36:20
What does Job 36:20 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 36:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949...
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 17:13
If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
- Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
- Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?
- Job 7:15
So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.
- 2 Kings 19:35
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- Job 34:25
Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
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