Job 34:20 · 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}”
— Job 34:20
{How much less to him} that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all {are} the work of his hands.
For his eyes {are} upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
Job 34 — Context
{Is it fit} to say to a king, {Thou art} wicked? {and} to princes, {Ye are} ungodly?
19{How much less to him} that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all {are} the work of his hands.
20In 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}
21For his eyes {are} upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
22{There is} no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Cross References
Psalms 73:19
How are they {brought} into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Isaiah 30:13
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
1 Samuel 25:37-39
But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became {as} a stone.
Luke 17:26-29
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they {were} all dead corpses.
Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, {Thou} fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? {thy...: Gr. do they require thy soul}
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
Daniel 5:30
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.