Job 34:18-34

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;

³¹For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

³²Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done — I do not add?'

³³By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused — That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.

³⁴Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.