18. Is it fitting to say to a king, ‘You are wicked’?And to princes, ‘You are ungodly’?
19. Yet He is not partial to princes,nor does He regard the rich more than the poor.For they all are the work of His hands.
20. In a moment they will die,and the people will be troubled at midnight and pass away,and the mighty will be taken away without a hand.
21. “For His eyes are upon the ways of man,and He sees all his goings.
22. There is no darkness nor shadow of deathwhere the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
23. For He will not lay upon man more than right,that he should enter into judgment with God.
24. He will break in pieces mighty men without number,and set others in their place.
25. Therefore He knows their works,and He overturns them in the nightso that they are destroyed.
26. He strikes them as wicked menin the open sight of others,
27. because they turned back from Himand would not consider any of His ways,
28. so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto Him;and He hears the cry of the afflicted.
29. When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble?And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him,whether it is done against a nation or against a man only?
30. That the hypocrite should not reign,lest the people be ensnared.
31. “Should anyone say to God,‘I have borne chastisement, I will offend no more;
32. teach me what I do not see;if I have done iniquity, I will do no more’?