16. “If you can understand, hear this;listen to what I have to say.
17. Can anyone govern who hates what is right?How can you blame God who is both fair and powerful?
18. God is the one who says to kings, ‘You are worthless,’or to important people, ‘You are evil.’
19. He is not nicer to princes than other people,nor kinder to rich people than poor people,because he made them all with his own hands.
20. They can die in a moment, in the middle of the night.They are struck down, and then they pass away;powerful people die without help.
21. “God watches where people go;he sees every step they take.
22. There is no dark place or deep shadowwhere those who do evil can hide from him.