Job 34:21-30

Modern English Version

²¹ “For His eyes are upon the ways of man,
    and He sees all his goings.
²² There is no darkness nor shadow of death
    where 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 night
    so that they are destroyed.
²⁶ He strikes them as wicked men
    in the open sight of others,
²⁷ because they turned back from Him
    and 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.