Job 34:21-30

Common English Bible

²¹ God’s eyes are on human ways,
    and he sees all their steps.
²² There’s no darkness, no deep darkness,
    where evildoers can hide themselves;
²³     surely no time is set for a person
    to appear before God in judgment.
²⁴ He shatters the mighty without examining them;
    makes others take their place.
²⁵ Thus he regards their deeds,
    overturns them at night, and they are crushed.
²⁶ He strikes them because of their wickedness
    at a place where people can see it.
²⁷ Because they turned from following him
        and didn’t value all his ways,
²⁸         causing the cry of the poor to reach him,
    he hears the cry of the afflicted.
²⁹ Still, if he remains quiet, who can condemn;
    if he hides his face, who can see him?
³⁰ He prevents a lawless person from ruling,
    from capturing people.