Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 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
Muwth
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 34:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Asserts God's Justice
19 Who accepted not the face of chiefs, and looked not upon the rich one before the poor: for his hand made all of them. 20 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. 21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he will see all his steps.
Names
Cross References
Exodus 12:29-30
And it will be in the middle of the night, and Jehovah struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting upon his throne, to the first-born of the captive which is in the house of the pit; and every first-born of the cattle.
1 Samuel 25:37-39
And it will be in the morning in the wine coming forth from Nabal, and his wife will announce to him these words, and his heart will die in the midst of him, and he was for a stone.
1 Samuel 26:10
And David will say, Jehovah lives, for shall not Jehovah strike him? or his day shall come and he died; or he shall go down in the war and perish.
Job 12:19
Leading away priests stripped off, and he will overthrow the mighty.
Job 36:20
Thou shalt not pant after the night, for taking up peoples in their place.
Psalm 73:19
How they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction.
Isaiah 10:16-19
For this shall Jehovah, the Lord of armies send among his fatnesses leanness; and under his glory he shall burn a burning as the burning of fire.
Isaiah 30:13
For this, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach falling, gushing out in a high wall, of which the breaking will come suddenly at a moment
Isaiah 30:30-33
And Jehovah caused the swelling of his voice to be heard, and he will cause the letting down of his arm to be seen in the anger of his wrath, and the flame of a consuming fire, violent rain and tempest, and the stone of hail,
Isaiah 37:36
And the messenger of Jehovah will go forth, and strike in the camp of Assur a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they will rise early in the morning, and behold, all of them dead corpses.
Isaiah 37:38
And it will be he worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword; and they escaped to the land of Ararat; and Esar-Haddon his son will reign in his stead.
Daniel 2:34
Thou wert seeing even till a stone was cut out not with hands, and striking against the image upon the feet of iron and burnt clay, and breaking them in pieces.
Daniel 2:44-45
And in their days that they are kings, the God of the heavens shall set up a kingdom that shall not be destroyed forever: and its kingdom shall be left to another people; it shall beat small and destroy all these kingdoms, and this shall stand forever.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was killed.
Zechariah 4:6
And he will answer And say to me, saying, This the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by strength, not by power, but by my spirit, said Jehovah of armies.
Matthew 25:6
And in the middle of the night there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go ye forth to his meeting.
Luke 12:20
And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?
Luke 17:26-29
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man.
Acts 12:23
And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes.
2 Peter 2:3
And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.