Job 34:20

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Summary

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.

A moment

Troubled

Without

General references

Isaiah 40:23

Bible References

A moment

How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

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.

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.

And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.

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?'

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.

For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night.

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.

Troubled

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.

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!

But at midnight there was a shout, 'Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.'

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

Without

In the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed.

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.

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.

The Lord will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

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.

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."

General references

He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing; he makes the earth's leaders insignificant.