18. Is it fitting to say to a king, ‘You are worthless,’And to nobles, ‘You are wicked’?
19. Yet He is not partial to princes,Nor does He regard the rich more than the poor;For they are all the work of His hands.
20. In a moment they die, in the middle of the night;The people are shaken and pass away;The mighty are taken away without a hand.
21. “For His eyes are on the ways of man,And He sees all his steps.
22. There is no darkness nor shadow of deathWhere the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
23. For He need not further consider a man,That he should go before God in judgment.
24. He breaks in pieces mighty men without inquiry,And sets others in their place.
25. Therefore He knows their works;He overthrows them in the night,And they are crushed.
26. He strikes them as wicked menIn the open sight of others,
27. Because they turned back from Him,And would not consider any of His ways,
28. So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him;For He hears the cry of the afflicted.