Job 34:20

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    In a moment they shall die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight and pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    In a moment{H7281} they die,{H4191} even at midnight;{H2676} The people{H5971} are shaken{H1607} and pass away,{H5674} And the mighty{H47} are taken away{H5674} without hand.{H3027}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    In a moment{H7281} shall they die{H4191}{(H8799)}, and the people{H5971} shall be troubled{H1607}{(H8792)} at midnight{H2676}{H3915}, and pass away{H5674}{(H8799)}: and the mighty{H47} shall be taken away{H5493}{(H8686)} without hand{H3027}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    In the twincklinge off an eye shall they be slayne: and at mydnight, when the people & the tyrauntes rage, then shal they perish, ad be taken awaye with out hondes.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    They shall die suddenly, and the people shalbe troubled at midnight, & they shall passe foorth and take away the mightie without hand.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    In the twinckling of an eye shall they dye, and at midnight when the people and the tirantes rage, then shall they perishe, & be taken away without handes.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `In' a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.

Referenced Verses

  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 4:19-21
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    19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

    20 From morning to evening they are broken to pieces; without anyone noticing, they perish forever.

    21 Isn't their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, and not with wisdom.

  • 19 How suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!

  • Job 27:19-20
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    19 The rich man lies down, but he will not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

    20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a storm sweeps him away.

  • Job 24:22-24
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    22 Yet God drags away the mighty with His power; though they rise up, they do not trust in their own lives.

    23 He allows them to rest in security, but His eyes are on their ways.

    24 They are exalted for a little while, but then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others, and like the heads of grain, they are cut off.

  • Job 34:24-26
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    24 He shatters the mighty without inquiry and sets others in their place.

    25 Because He knows their deeds, He overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.

    26 He strikes them down for their wickedness in a place where all can see.

  • 14 In the evening, sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us.

  • 19 God shows no partiality to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of His hands.

  • 13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.

  • 17 For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • 20 Do not long for the night, when people are taken from their place.

  • 29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

  • 1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; faithful people are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.

  • Job 12:19-21
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    71%

    19 "He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty."

    20 He silences the speech of the trustworthy and takes away the discernment of the elders.

    21 He pours out contempt on nobles and loosens the belts of the strong.

  • 20 Those who come after are appalled at his fate, and those before are seized with horror.

  • 5 You are radiant and majestic, more excellent than the mountains of prey.

  • 24 Surely one does not stretch out a hand in ruin or cry for help in disaster.

  • 11 Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on; but they are guilty—this strength of theirs is their god.

  • 4 They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong.

  • 8 Like a dream he flies away and is no more; he is chased away like a vision of the night.

  • 14 They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.

  • 14 Their soul dies in their youth, and their life ends among the unclean.

  • 6 In the morning it flourishes and grows, but by evening it withers and dries up.

  • 14 This is their fate, their foolish confidence. And yet, after them, people approve their words. Selah.

  • 21 For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees all his steps.

  • 14 Flight will perish from the swift, the strong will not retain their strength, and the warrior will not save his life.

  • 22 For suddenly their calamity will rise, and who knows the ruin of both of them?

  • 26 They lie down together in the dust, and worms cover them.

  • 12 so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.

  • 12 They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

  • 9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

  • 15 We used to share close communion together; we walked with the crowd in the house of God.

  • 15 all flesh would perish together, and mankind would return to dust.

  • Job 18:13-14
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    13 It devours parts of his skin; death's firstborn consumes his limbs.

    14 He is uprooted from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

  • 5 But the horde of your enemies will be like fine dust, and the horde of the ruthless ones will be like blowing chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,

  • 4 When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

  • 24 He removes the understanding of the leaders of the earth's people and makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

  • 9 People cry out because of the multitude of oppressions; they plead for help because of the power of the mighty.

  • 23 One person dies in the full vigor of his strength, completely secure and at ease,

  • 18 They are like straw before the wind and like chaff carried away by a storm.

  • 38 But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.