17 Shall he who hates justice really govern? Or will you declare the Righteous One, the Mighty, guilty?—
18 the one who says to a king, ‘You worthless man,’ to noblemen, ‘You wicked man,’
19 who shows no partiality to officials and who does not take note of the noble more than of the insignificant, for all of them are the work of his hands?
20 In a moment they die, and in the middle of the night the people are shaken, and they pass away, and they take away the mighty effortlessly.
21 “Indeed, his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his steps.
22 There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves.
23 Indeed, he has not yet appointed a time for man to go to God in the judgment.