Job 34:18 meaning and explanation

who says to kings, ‘You are worthless!’ and to nobles, ‘You are wicked,’

Job 34:18, Berean Standard Bible

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Elihu is speaking, a younger bystander who has listened to Job's long protest and now answers him. Having argued that God cannot act unjustly, Elihu describes a God who is utterly impartial: He addresses kings as worthless and nobles as wicked, and He shows no partiality to princes or the rich, since all are the work of His hands.

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