16. If now you have understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
17. Shall even he that hates right govern? and will you condemn him that is most just?
18. Is it fit to say to a king, You are wicked? and to princes, You are ungodly?
19. How much less to him that regards not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
20. In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without a hand.
21. For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his steps.
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 what is right; that he should enter into judgment with God.