Job 36:20

Job 36:20 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

20Do not long for the night,

to drag people away from their homes.

20“Do not long for the night,

When people vanish in their places.

20“Do not long for the night,

When people vanish from their places.

20Do not long for the night,

when people vanish from their homes.

20Desire not the night,

When peoples are cut off in their place.

20Be not carefull in the night, howe he destroyeth the people out of their place.

20Don’t desire the night,

when people are cut off in their place.

20Don’t wish for the night to come

so you can drag people away from their homes.

20Do not wait for the night to hide what you want to do.

That is the time when people disappear from their homes.

20Do not desire the night, || For the going up of peoples in their stead.