Job 34:30-32

Living Bible

^29-30 Yet when he chooses not to speak, who can criticize? Again, he may prevent a vile man from ruling, thus saving a nation from ruin, and he can depose an entire nation just as easily.

³¹ “Why don’t people exclaim to their God, ‘We have sinned, but we will stop,’ ³² or ‘We know not what evil we have done; only tell us, and we will cease at once’?