Job 34:18-34

¹⁸Wilt thou say vnto a King, Thou art wicked? or to princes, Ye are vngodly?

¹⁹How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, and regardeth not the rich, more then the poore? for they be all the worke of his handes.

²⁰They shall die suddenly, and the people shalbe troubled at midnight, and they shall passe foorth and take away the mightie without hand.

²¹For his eyes are vpon the wayes of man, and he seeth all his goings.

²²There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death, that the workers of iniquitie might be hid therein.

²³For he will not lay on man so much, that he should enter into iudgement with God.

²⁴He shall breake the mightie without seeking, and shall set vp other in their stead.

²⁵Therefore shall he declare their works: he shall turne the night, and they shalbe destroyed.

²⁶He striketh them as wicked men in the places of the seers,

²⁷Because they haue turned backe from him, and would not consider all his wayes:

²⁸So that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to come vnto him, and he hath heard the cry of the afflicted.

²⁹And when he giueth quietnesse, who can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who can beholde him, whether it be vpon nations, or vpon a man onely?

³⁰Because the hypocrite doeth reigne, and because the people are snared.

³¹Surely it appertaineth vnto God to say, I haue pardoned, I will not destroy.

³²But if I see not, teach thou me: if I haue done wickedly, I will doe no more.

³³Wil he performe the thing through thee? for thou hast reproued it, because that thou hast chosen, and not I. now speake what thou knowest.

³⁴Let men of vnderstanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken vnto me.