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"For His eyes are upon the ways of a person, And He sees all his steps.

For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

"There is no darkness or deep shadow Where the workers of injustice can hide themselves.

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

"For He does not need to consider a person further, That he should go before God in judgment.

For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

"He breaks in pieces the mighty without investigation, And sets others in their place.

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

"Therefore He knows their deeds, And He overthrows them in the night, And they are crushed.

Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

"He strikes them like the wicked In a public place,

He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

Because they turned aside from following Him, And had no regard for any of His ways,

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him, And that He would hear the cry of the afflicted—

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

When He keeps quiet, who can condemn? And when He hides His face, who then can look at Him, That is, regarding both nation and a person?—

When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

"So that godless people would not rule, Nor be snares for the people.

That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.