⁸ Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

⁶ For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

¹⁵ But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

²² For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

² Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.