Job 34:16–30

¹⁶And if there is understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words. ¹⁷Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn? ¹⁸Who hath said to a king—‘Worthless,’ Unto princes—‘Wicked?’ ¹⁹That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them. ²⁰In a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand. ²¹For His eyes are on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see. ²²There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there; ²³For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment, ²⁴He breaketh the mighty—no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead. ²⁵Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised. ²⁶As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders. ²⁷Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely, ²⁸To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth. ²⁹And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, It is the same. ³⁰From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;