Job 34:20

In 11 translations

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.the mighty…: Heb. they shall take away the mighty

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.

LSV

[In] a moment they die, || And at midnight people shake, || And they pass away, || And they remove the mighty without hand.

YLT

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

DBY

In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away; and the strong are taken away without hand.

DRC

They shall suddenly die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and they shall pass, and take away the violent without hand.

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

But it shall turn out vanity to them, to cry and beseech a man; for they dealt unlawfully, the poor being turned aside from their right.

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WLC

רֶ֤גַע ׀ יָמֻתוּ֮ וַחֲצ֪וֹת לָ֥יְלָה יְגֹעֲשׁ֣וּ עָ֣ם וְיַעֲבֹ֑רוּ וְיָסִ֥ירוּ אַ֝בִּ֗יר לֹ֣א בְיָֽד׃

LXX-Br

Κενὰ δὲ αὐτοῖς ἀποβήσεται, τὸ κεκραγέναι καὶ δεῖσθαι ἀνδρός· ἐχρήσαντο γὰρ παρανόμως, ἐκκλινομένων ἀδυνάτων.

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• Psalms 73:19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
• Job 36:20Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:2For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
• Luke 17:26–29Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man: People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and…
• Job 12:19He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.
• 1 Samuel 25:37–39In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these events, and his heart failed within him and he became like a stone. About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead. On hearing that Nabal was dead,…
• Isaiah 10:16–19Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame. And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a…
• Daniel 5:30That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
• Daniel 2:34As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
• Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
• Isaiah 30:13this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!
• Isaiah 30:30–33And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones. For Assyria will be…
• 1 Samuel 26:10David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
• Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Isaiah 37:38One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
• Isaiah 37:36Then 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!

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