Parallel Verses
NET Bible
In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.
New American Standard Bible
People are shaken and pass away,
And
King James 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.
Holman Bible
people shudder, then pass away.
Even the mighty are removed without effort.
International Standard Version
"They die suddenly, in the middle of the night; people suffer seizures and pass away; even valiant men can be taken away and not by human hands.
A Conservative Version
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
In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.
Amplified
“In a moment they die, even at midnight
The people are shaken and pass away,
And the powerful are taken away without a [human] hand.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away; and the strong are taken away without hand.
Julia Smith Translation
In a moment shall they die, and the middle of the night shall the people be moved and pass away: and the mighty shall be removed with not a hand.
King James 2000
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 a hand.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[In] a moment they die, and [in] the middle of [the] night [the] people are shaken, and they pass away, and they take away [the] mighty {effortlessly}.
Modern King James verseion
In a moment they die, and a people are shaken at midnight and pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without a hand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
In the twinkling of an eye shall they be slain: and at midnight, when the people and the tyrants rage, then shall they perish, and be taken away without hands.
New Heart English Bible
In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
The Emphasized Bible
In a moment, they die, even in the middle of the night, - A people are convulsed when they pass away, A mighty one is removed, without hand;
Webster
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.
World English Bible
In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
Youngs Literal Translation
In a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 34:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Asserts God's Justice
19 who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands? 20 In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly. 21 For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person's steps.
Names
Cross References
Exodus 12:29-30
It happened at midnight -- the Lord attacked 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 prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
1 Samuel 25:37-39
In the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed.
1 Samuel 26:10
David went on to say, "As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.
Job 12:19
He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the potentates.
Job 36:20
Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.
Psalm 73:19
How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
Isaiah 10:16-19
For this reason the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. His majestic glory will go up in smoke.
Isaiah 30:13
So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.
Isaiah 30:30-33
The Lord will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.
Isaiah 37:36
The Lord's messenger went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!
Isaiah 37:38
One day, as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.
Daniel 2:34
You were watching as a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its iron and clay feet, breaking them in pieces.
Daniel 2:44-45
In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.
Daniel 5:30
And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
Zechariah 4:6
Therefore he told me, "These signify the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: 'Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit,' says the Lord who rules over all."
Matthew 25:6
But at midnight there was a shout, 'Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.'
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'
Luke 17:26-29
Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
Acts 12:23
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night.
2 Peter 2:3
And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.