Job 34:16–30

¹⁶If now thou hast understanding, hear this: give ear to the voice of my words! ¹⁷Should he that hateth right indeed govern? and wilt thou condemn the All-just? ¹⁸Shall one say to a king, Belial? to nobles, Wicked? ¹⁹How then to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor? for they are all the work of his hands. ²⁰In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away; and the strong are taken away without hand. ²¹For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his steps. ²²There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. ²³For he doth not long consider a man, to bring him before •God in judgment. ²⁴He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquiry, and setteth others in their stead; ²⁵Since he knoweth their actions; and he overthroweth them in the night, and they are crushed. ²⁶He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others, ²⁷Because they have turned back from him, and would consider none of his ways; ²⁸So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted. ²⁹When he giveth quietness, who then will disturb? and when he hideth his face, who shall behold him? and this towards a nation, or towards a man alike; ³⁰That the ungodly man reign not, that the people be not ensnared.