4 Bible Verses About Speaking Truth to Power

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.