New Revised Standard Version
Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.

Contemporary English Version
nor can you find safety in the dark world below.

New American Bible
Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.

Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.

Desire

Job 3:20,21 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul? . . .

Job 6:9 And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?

Job 7:15 So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.

Job 14:13 Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?

Job 17:13,14 If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. . . .

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Exodus 12:29 And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle.

2 Kings 19:35 And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came, and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies of the dead.

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds be full, they will pour out rain upon the earth. If the tree fall to the south, or to the north, in what place soever it shall fall, there shall it be.

Daniel 5:30 The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.

Luke 12:20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Acts 1:25 To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place.

1 Thessalonians 5:2,3 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so come as a thief in the night. . . .