Job 34:29
Yet if God wants to remain silent, who can condemn him? If he chooses to hide his face, who can see him? Whether it concerns a nation or an individual,
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28They made the poor call out to him, and he heard the cries of the oppressed.
30a person who rejects God should not rule so they don't mislead people.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:1By now the king was comfortable in his palace and the Lord had given him peace from all the enemy nations around him.
2 Kings 18:9In the fourth year of Hezekiah's reign, equivalent to the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, attacked Samaria, besieging it.
2 Chronicles 36:14All the leaders of the priests and the people were also totally faithless and sinful, following all the disgusting practices of the heathen nations. They defiled the Lord's Temple that he had set apart as holy in Jerusalem.
Job 23:8If I go to the east, he's not there; if I go the west, I don't find him.
Job 23:13But God is unchangeable—who can turn him from his purposes? He does whatever he wants to do.
Psalms 13:1How long, Lord, are you going to forget me? Forever? How long will you turn away from me?
Matthew Henry on Job 34:17-31
16 If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words. 17 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just? 18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly? 19 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth 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… Read the whole commentary →