Job 34:20

Display of God's just rule over people and princes. According to the punctuation the verse is thus divided,

In a moment they die and at midnight;

The people are shaken and pass away,

And the mighty are taken away without hand.

The phrase at midnightmeans suddenly and without anticipation, comp. Job 34:25; Psalms 119:62. Without hand, i. e. through no human agency, by an unseen power, the ruling hand of God; comp. ch. Job 20:26; Daniel 2:34-35; Zechariah 4:6. The mightyare the princes, opposed to "the people" in the second clause.