Job 34:20

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In a moment, they die; at midnight, people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are removed without human intervention.

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  • Exod 12:29-30 : 29 At midnight, the LORD struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock. 30 Pharaoh got up during the night, along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was no house without someone dead.
  • 1 Sam 25:37-39 : 37 Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him, and he became like a stone. 38 About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died. 39 When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, 'Blessed be the Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for insulting me, and has kept me, his servant, from wrongdoing. The Lord has brought Nabal’s wickedness upon his own head.' Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.
  • 1 Sam 26:10 : 10 David also said, "As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.
  • Job 12:19 : 19 "He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty."
  • Job 36:20 : 20 Do not long for the night, when people are taken from their place.
  • Ps 73:19 : 19 How suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!
  • Isa 10:16-19 : 16 Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will send leanness among his robust ones, and under his glory, a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire. 17 The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; it will burn and devour his thorns and briars in a single day. 18 The glory of his forest and his fruitful fields will be consumed, both soul and body. It will be as when a sick man wastes away. 19 The remaining trees of his forest will be so few that a child could count them.
  • Isa 30:13 : 13 'this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.'
  • Isa 30:30-33 : 30 The LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and will display the strength of his arm with furious anger and consuming fire, with a cloudburst, storm, and hailstones. 31 At the voice of the LORD, Assyria will be shattered; he will strike them down with his rod. 32 Every stroke the LORD lays on them with his punishing rod will be to the sound of tambourines and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm. 33 Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its fire pit is deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies.
  • Isa 37:38 : 38 While he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esarhaddon reigned in his place.
  • Dan 2:34 : 34 While you were watching, a stone was cut out, not by human hands. It struck the statue on its iron and clay feet and broke them into pieces.
  • Dan 2:44-45 : 44 In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will establish a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will stand forever. 45 This is because you saw a stone cut out from a mountain without human hands, and it crushed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold. The great God has made known to the king what will happen in the future. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is trustworthy.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 That very night, Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.
  • Zech 4:6 : 6 He said to me, 'This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel:
  • Matt 25:6 : 6 At midnight, there was a cry: ‘Look, the bridegroom is coming! Go out to meet him!’
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, 'Fool! This very night your soul will be required of you, and the things you have prepared—who will they belong to?'
  • Luke 17:26-29 : 26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 Immediately, an angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give glory to God. He was eaten by worms and died.
  • 1 Thess 5:2 : 2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

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