^{19 Ref} Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.

^{20 Ref} In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand.

^{21 Ref} "For his eyes are on the ways of a man, He sees all his goings.

^{22 Ref} There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

^{23 Ref} For he doesn't need to consider a man further, That he should go before God in judgment.

^{24 Ref} He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And sets others in their place.

^{25 Ref} Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

^{26 Ref} He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of others;

^{27 Ref} Because they turned aside from following him, And wouldn't have regard in any of his ways:

^{28 Ref} So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, He heard the cry of the afflicted.

^{29 Ref} When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man: