Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 34:20

20. 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 .

Whensoever God doth but give the word, and send his Summons for them.

i. e. The Rich and the Prince no less than the poor must submit to the Law of death which God hath imposed upon all men without exception, and they cannot charge God with injury therein.

Whole Nations or People are no less subject to God's power than any particular Persons: their numbers cannot secure them from God's hand.

i. e. disturbed and terrified with those calamities which God shall bring upon them.

Suddenly, and when they are most secure.

Either, 1. go into Captivity, or run, or fly away, they know not whither for their lives. Or, 2. perish or die, as he said before, and as this word is oft used, as Iob 14. 20 Psal. 37. 36. Eccles. 1. 4▪ So the same thing is said of the People, which in the first branch of the Verse was said of the Princes.

Either from their place or power: or out of this life.

Without any hand or help of Man▪ by some secret and stupendious work and judgment of God, which he oft inflicts upon those who are out of the reach of men.

Marginal references: Heb. they that take away the mighty.