Job 34:29
When he now granteth rest, who will condemn [him]! and when he hideth his face, who can behold him? whether it be against a nation, or against one man, it is the same:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
28Bringing before them the cry of the indigent, and the cry of the afflicted which he had to hear.
30That no hypocritical man may reign, that such shall not be a mare to the people.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:1And it came to pass, when the king dwelt in his house, and the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
2 Kings 18:9And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea' the son of Elah the king of Israel, that Shalmanesser the king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
2 Chronicles 36:14Also all the chiefs of the priests and the people committed manifold trespasses, like all the abominable acts of the [foreign] nations: and they defiled the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
Job 23:8But, lo, I go eastward—and he is not there; and to the west— and I cannot perceive him;
Job 23:13But he is unchangeably one, and who can turn him? And what his will desireth, even that he doth.
Psalms 13:1“To the chief musician, a psalm of David.” (13:2) How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me continually! how long wilt thou hide thy face 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 →