Both small and great are there,
and the slave is set free from his master.

It is all the same. Therefore I say,
“He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.”

There is no one to judge between us,
to lay his hand on both of us.

Both the gray-haired and the elderly are with us,
men older than your father.

But they both lie in the dust,
and worms cover them.

Did not the One who made me in the womb also make them?
Did not the same God form us both in the womb?

But when God is silent, who can declare Him guilty?
When He hides His face, who can see Him?
Yet He watches over both individuals and nations,