Parallel Verses
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.
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 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
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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 How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor? For all of them are the work of His hands. 20 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. 21 For His eyes are on the ways of man, and He sees all his steps.
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Cross References
Exodus 12:29-30
And it happened at midnight Jehovah struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive that was in the prison; also all the first-born of cattle.
1 Samuel 25:37-39
And it happened in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal and his wife had told him these things, his heart died within him and he became like a stone.
1 Samuel 26:10
And David said, As Jehovah lives, except Jehovah strike him, or his day shall come, and he dies, or he goes down to battle and is consumed,
Job 12:19
He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
Job 36:20
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Psalm 73:19
How have they been brought into grief, as in a moment! They are fully eaten up with terrors,
Isaiah 10:16-19
Therefore the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones; and under his glory He shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.
Isaiah 30:30-33
And Jehovah shall cause His glorious voice to be heard, and the bringing down of His arm shall be seen with raging anger and flame of a devouring fire, cloudburst and storm and hailstones.
Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning, and behold! They were all dead corpses.
Isaiah 37:38
And it happened as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword. And they escaped into the land of Ararat; and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his place.
Daniel 2:34
You watched until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image upon its feet which were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces.
Daniel 2:44-45
And in the days of these kings, the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other peoples, but it shall crush and destroy all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed.
Zechariah 4:6
Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the Word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Matthew 25:6
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes! Go out to meet him.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul shall be required of you, then whose shall be those things which you have prepared?
Luke 17:26-29
And as it was in the days of Noah, so it also shall be in the days of the Son of Man.
Acts 12:23
And immediately the angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory. And he was eaten by worms and gave up the spirit.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
2 Peter 2:3
And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.