Job 34:16-30

¹⁶ “If now you have understanding, hear this.
Listen to the voice of my words. ¹⁷ Shall even one who hates justice govern?
Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?— ¹⁸ Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’
or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’? ¹⁹ Who doesn’t respect the persons of princes,
nor respects 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.
The mighty are taken away without a hand. ²¹ “For his eyes are on the ways of a man.
He sees all his goings. ²² There is no darkness, nor thick gloom,
where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. ²³ For he doesn’t need to consider a man further,
that he should go before God in judgment. ²⁴ He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out,
and sets others in their place. ²⁵ Therefore he takes knowledge of their works.
He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed. ²⁶ He strikes them as wicked men
in the open sight of others; ²⁷ because they turned aside from following him,
and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways, ²⁸ so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him.
He heard the cry of the afflicted. ²⁹ When he gives quietness, who then can condemn?
When he hides his face, who then can see him?
Alike whether to a nation, or to a man, ³⁰ that the godless man may not reign,
that there be no one to ensnare the people.