Job 36:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 34:20 : 20 In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.
Job 34:25 : 25 Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
Eccl 11:3 : 3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.
Dan 5:30 : 30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
Luke 12:20 : 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?
Acts 1:25 : 25 to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.
1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 {G1063} When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
Exod 12:29 : 29 And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.
2 Kgs 19:35 : 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 3:20-21 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Job 6:9 : 9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:15 : 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.
Job 14:13 : 13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; 14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;

Similar Verses (AI)

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Job 3:4-9
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4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
6As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
7Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
8Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
Job 36:18-19
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18For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
19Will thy cry avail, [that thou be] not in distress, Or all the forces of [thy] strength?
Prov 24:1
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1Be not thou envious against evil men; Neither desire to be with them:
Job 36:21
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21Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Job 34:20
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20In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.
Job 24:16-17
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71%
16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Prov 3:25
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25Be not afraid of sudden fear, Neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh:
Eccl 8:16
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16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),
Job 3:21
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21Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Job 17:12
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12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.
Job 4:13
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13In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men,
Prov 24:18-20
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18Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.
19Fret not thyself because of evil-doers; Neither be thou envious at the wicked:
20For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Job 27:19-20
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19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers]; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.
20Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Isa 17:14
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14At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Eccl 12:2
70%
2before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
Prov 6:4
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4Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
Job 15:29
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29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
Prov 7:9
69%
9In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
Job 33:15
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15In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;
Prov 24:15
69%
15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place:
Eccl 2:23
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23For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
Job 18:6
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6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
Job 23:17
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17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
Job 24:14
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14The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
Ps 34:12
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12What man is he that desireth life, And loveth [many] days, that he may see good?
Job 20:20
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20Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.
Prov 5:9
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9Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;
Prov 23:4
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4Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.
Job 20:8-9
2 verses
69%
8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.
Prov 4:15-16
2 verses
69%
15Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
16For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Job 5:14
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14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
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20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Prov 3:31
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31Envy thou not the man of violence, And choose none of his ways.
Job 14:12
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12So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
Job 7:4
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4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Job 21:21
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21For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?
Ezek 24:16
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16Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet thou shalt neither mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.