Job 34:20
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. 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 verse stands in chapters 32-37, which give Elihu's argument and reproof to Job. It belongs to the poetic body of the book, whose opening narrative and closing statement are prose and all the rest is poetry. The book truly records what its speakers said, but inspiration of the book does not make everything said by every speaker in it true.
The mighty being taken away without hand means they are removed without human action or intervention, by divine power through God's judgment. This is in the sense of a power being broken without hand. The verse describes God's judgments, specifically His final judgments upon the wicked nations of earth at the second coming of Christ, when in a moment they die and the people are troubled in the night and pass away. At that judgment all who have not been slain in the wars and plagues of the last days perish in the glory of Christ's presence.
At midnight Christ comes in the clouds in terrible majesty for the deliverance of His people and to gather the saints home. Then a brightness far exceeding the noonday brilliancy of the sun bursts upon the world. The midnight specifies the time of the Lord's appearing to deliver His people in the clouds.
The troubling at midnight and passing away is a twenty-four hour work of resurrecting and gathering the glorified followers of Christ, as the earth revolves so that the hour of midnight with its awe-inspiring scenes arrives for every portion of the globe in turn. Christ does not actually descend upon the earth but takes His position in the air, probably first over Palestine, and remains stationary while the saints resurrected and translated in that portion are caught up by angels to Him. Angelic messengers speed to the resting places of the saints everywhere as they come forth in response to the voice of the Son of God and the loud call of the trump of the archangel.
The midnight marks that these judgments come in the night, yet it does not set the time of His coming, does not tell the day or the year, and leaves the time as uncertain as though no time were mentioned. Previous to the coming, probation closes, probably one year before that time, a prophetic day.