Job 34:16-30

¹⁶ If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words. ¹⁷ Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous [and] mighty?— ¹⁸ [Him] that saith to a king, [Thou art] vile, [Or] to nobles, [Ye are] wicked; ¹⁹ That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands. ²⁰ In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand. ²¹ For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings. ²² There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. ²³ For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment. ²⁴ He breaketh in pieces mighty men [in ways] past finding out, And setteth others in their stead. ²⁵ Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed. ²⁶ He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others; ²⁷ Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways: ²⁸ So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted. ²⁹ When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether [it be done] unto a nation, or unto a man: ³⁰ That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people.