Job 34:18-34

¹⁸He tells some kings that they are worthless, and he says to some officials that they are wicked.

¹⁹He does not favor rulers more than he favors others; he does not favor rich people more than poor people, because he created all of them.

²⁰People often die suddenly; he strikes them at midnight and they die; he even gets rid of mighty people without the help of any humans SYN.

²¹He sees MTY everything that people do; when we walk, he watches every step that we take.

²²There is no gloom or darkness DOU that is so dark that sinners can hide from him in that darkness.

²³God does not need to set a time when we will stand in front of him in order that he may judge us. He can judge us whenever he wants to.

²⁴He destroys mighty people without needing to investigate what they have done, and he appoints others to take their places.

²⁵Because he already knows what they have done, he removes them at night and gets rid of them.

²⁶Where many people can see it, he strikes/punishes them because of the wicked things that they have done;

²⁷he strikes them because they turned away from doing what he wanted them to do and did not pay attention to any of his commands.

²⁸They mistreated the poor people, with the result that those poor people cried out to God for help, and he heard those afflicted people when they cried out to him.

²⁹But if God decides to do nothing to punish wicked people, no one can criticize/condemn him. If a godless/wicked man rules a nation, a man who tricks/deceives the people,

³⁰and if God hides his face with the result that he does not see that ruler or punish him, no one will be able to prevent that ruler doing those things.

³¹Job, have you or anyone else ever said to God, ‘I have been punished for my sins, and I will not sin anymore;

³²so teach/show me what sins I have committed; if I have done anything that is evil, I will not do it any more’?

³³Job, you object to what God has done to you, but do you think that he will do what you want him to do? It is you who must choose what you say to God, not I; so tell me what you are thinking about this.

³⁴People who have good sense, those who are wise and who listen to what I say, will say to me,