Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Job 34:25 stands in the poetic part of the book, within Elihu's argument and reproof to Job in chapters 32 through 37. The book's opening narrative and closing statement are prose while all the rest is poetry. The book was written before the Exodus. The book is inspired, Job is a real person, and its narrative presents facts. The book must be studied as a whole and not broken apart by taking out only portions. What God revealed in the book glorifies Him, gives comfort and hope to those who suffer, and proves a blessing.
The verse describes God's final judgments on the wicked nations of earth at the second coming, which will come in the night. At that time, all who have not already been slain in the wars and plagues of the last days will perish in the glory of Christ's presence. The reference to night does not set the time of His coming, does not reveal the day or the year, and leaves the time as uncertain as if no time had been mentioned. Probation closes one year, or a prophetic day, before that time, to which many New Testament warnings refer.
Job 34:25 stands in the poetic part of the book, within Elihu's argument and reproof to Job in chapters 32 through 37. The book's opening narrative and closing statement are prose while all the rest is poetry. The book was written before the Exodus. The book is inspired, Job is a real person, and its narrative presents facts. The book must be studied as a whole and not broken apart by taking out only portions. What God revealed in the book glorifies Him, gives comfort and hope to those who suffer, and proves a blessing.
The verse describes God's final judgments on the wicked nations of earth at the second coming, which will come in the night. At that time, all who have not already been slain in the wars and plagues of the last days will perish in the glory of Christ's presence. The reference to night does not set the time of His coming, does not reveal the day or the year, and leaves the time as uncertain as if no time had been mentioned. Probation closes one year, or a prophetic day, before that time, to which many New Testament warnings refer.