Job 34:20

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.

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  • Exod 12:29-30 : 29 It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. 30 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
  • 1 Sam 25:37-39 : 37 It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 38 It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died. 39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil: and the evil-doing of Nabal has Yahweh returned on his own head. David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.
  • 1 Sam 26:10 : 10 David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
  • Job 12:19 : 19 He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.
  • Job 36:20 : 20 Don't desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.
  • Ps 73:19 : 19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
  • Isa 10:16-19 : 16 Therefore will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire. 17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. 18 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer faints. 19 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.
  • Isa 30:13 : 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
  • Isa 30:30-33 : 30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones. 31 For through the voice of Yahweh shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will he strike [him]. 32 Every stroke of the appointed staff, which Yahweh shall lay on him, shall be with [the sound of] tambourines and harps; and in battles with the brandishing [of his arm] will he fight with them. 33 For a Topheth is prepared of old; yes, for the king it is made ready; he has made it deep and large; the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of Yahweh, like a stream of sulfur, does kindle it.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  • Isa 37:38 : 38 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
  • Dan 2:34 : 34 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
  • Dan 2:44-45 : 44 In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty of it be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
  • Zech 4:6 : 6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says Yahweh of Hosts.
  • Matt 25:6 : 6 But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!'
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
  • Luke 17:26-29 : 26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
  • 1 Thess 5:2 : 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

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    23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

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    24 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And sets others in their place.

    25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

    26 He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of others;

  • 14 At evening, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • 19 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.

  • 13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

  • 17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • 20 Don't desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.

  • 29 You hide your face: they are troubled; You take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

  • 1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].

  • Job 12:19-21
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    19 He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.

    20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, And takes away the understanding of the elders.

    21 He pours contempt on princes, And loosens the belt of the strong.

  • 20 Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, As those who went before were frightened.

  • 5 Valiant men lie plundered, They have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

  • 24 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • 11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."

  • 4 For there are no struggles in their death, But their strength is firm.

  • 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

  • 14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • 14 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

  • 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

  • 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, Far from their mansion.

  • 21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man, He sees all his goings.

  • 14 Flight will perish from the swift; And the strong won't strengthen his force; Neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

  • 22 For their calamity will rise suddenly; The destruction from them both--who knows?

  • 26 They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them.

  • 12 So man lies down and doesn't rise; Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • 12 They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • 9 By the breath of God they perish, By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

  • 15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • 15 All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.

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    13 The members of his body shall be devoured, The firstborn of death shall devour his members.

    14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

  • 5 But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the awesome ones as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be in an instant suddenly.

  • 4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

  • 24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • 9 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

  • 23 One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet.

  • 18 That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?

  • 38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.