^15 (A)“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

^17 (A)You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for ^(B)the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall ^(C)bring to me, and I will hear it.’

More Sayings of the Wise

²³ These also are sayings of ^(A)the wise.

^19 (A)“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

^35 (A)“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.

^6 (A)“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. ^7 (B)Keep far from a false charge, and ^(C)do not kill the innocent and righteous, for ^(D)I will not acquit the wicked. ^8 (E)And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

² You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, ^3 (A)nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.

⁶ But you ^(A)have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who ^(B)drag you ^(C)into court? ⁷ Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable ^(D)name by which you were called?

⁸ If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ^(E)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. ⁹ But if you ^(F)show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.