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The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
    he brings low; he also exalts.(A)

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The Lord sends poverty and wealth;(A)
    he humbles and he exalts.(B)

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20 Do not long for the night,
    when peoples are cut off in their place.(A)

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20 Do not long for the night,(A)
    to drag people away from their homes.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 36:20 The meaning of the Hebrew for verses 18-20 is uncertain.

11 I will punish the world for its evil
    and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant
    and lay low the insolence of tyrants.(A)

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11 I will punish(A) the world for its evil,
    the wicked(B) for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty(C)
    and will humble(D) the pride of the ruthless.(E)

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“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their juice spattered on my garments,
    and I stained all my robes.(A)

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“I have trodden the winepress(A) alone;
    from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled(B) them in my anger
    and trod them down in my wrath;(C)
their blood spattered my garments,(D)
    and I stained all my clothing.

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