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Job 34:20

Justice

18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

19 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

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.

21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

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BSB
They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
KJV
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.
WEB
In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
ASV
In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.
DARBY
In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away; and the strong are taken away without hand.
BLB
[In] a moment they die, and in the middle of the night the people are shaken and pass away; and the mighty are taken away, not by a hand.
ÅB
I et øyeblikk dør de, midt om natten; folket raver og forgår, og den mektige rykkes bort, ikke ved menneskehånd.
OTB
I et øyeblikk dør de,
midt på natten; folk blir rystet og går bort,
og de mektige blir fjernet uten menneskelig hånd.
B1930
I et øieblikk dør de, midt om natten; folket raver og forgår, og den mektige rykkes bort, ikke ved menneskehånd.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 73:19

    How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

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  • Isaiah 30:30–33

    And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

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  • 1 Samuel 25:37–39

    But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

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  • Luke 12:20

    But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

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  • Isaiah 30:13

    Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

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  • Isaiah 37:38

    And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

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  • 2 Peter 2:3

    And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

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  • 1 Thessalonians 5:2

    For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

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