Job 34:20
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34:20In a moment they die, in the middle of the night,34
people35 are shaken36 and they pass away.
The mighty are removed effortlessly.37
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- 34 Dhorme transposes “in the middle of the night” with “they pass away” to get a smoother reading. But the emphasizes the suddenness by putting both temporal ideas first. E. F. Sutcliffe leaves the order as it stands in the text, but adds a verb “they expire” after “in the middle of the night” (“Notes on Job, textual and exegetical,” 30 [1949]: 79ff.).
- 35 R. Gordis (Job, 389) thinks “people” here mean the people who count, the upper class.
- 36 The verb means “to be violently agitated.” There is no problem with the word in this context, but commentators have made suggestions for improving the idea. The proposal that has the most to commend it, if one were inclined to choose a new word, is the change to יִגְוָעוּ (yigva’u, “they expire”; so Ball, Holscher, Fohrer, and others).
- 37 Heb “not by hand.” This means without having to use force.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
In a moment they die;
at midnight the people are shaken and pass away,
and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
They die in an instant, in the middle of the night;
the people are shaken and they pass away;
the mighty are removed without human hand.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
They die suddenly in the middle of the night;
people shudder, then pass away.
Even the mighty are removed without effort.
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NLTNew Living Translation
In a moment they die.
In the middle of the night they pass away;
the mighty are removed without human hand.
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LEBThe Lexham English 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.
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KJV 1900King 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.
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