Job 34:20,21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

In a moment shall they die Whensoever God doth but give the word, and send his summons for them. 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 the people shall be troubled Hebrew, יגעשׁו, jegognashu, concutientur, tremiscent, shall be shaken, shall tremble, at the approach of death, or through the calamities which God will bring upon them. Whole nations, or people, are no less subject to God's power than any particular persons: their number cannot secure them from his hand. At midnight Suddenly or unexpectedly, when they are most secure. And the mighty shall be taken away From their place or power, or out of this life; without hand Without any hand or instrumentality of man; by some secret act or judgment of God, which he often inflicts upon those who are out of the reach of men. For his eyes are upon the ways of man “There is no one passage of man's life but God is acquainted with it, and therefore cannot be suspected, through ignorance of their actions, (any more than through fear of their persons,) to overlook their crimes, or to do them any injustice.” Patrick. God doth not destroy either prince or people unjustly, no, nor out of his mere pleasure, but for their sins, which he sees exactly, although they use all possible arts to hide them.