¹⁵ ‘You shall do no injustice in ^(A)judgment. You shall not ^(B)be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

^17 (A)You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for ^(B)the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, ^(C)bring to me, and I will hear it.’

Further Sayings of the Wise

²³ These things also belong to the wise:

^19 (A)‘Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

³⁵ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume.

^6 (A)“You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute. ^7 (B)Keep yourself far from a false matter; ^(C)do not kill the innocent and righteous. For ^(D)I will not justify the wicked. ⁸ And ^(E)you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.

^2 (A)You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; ^(B)nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice. ³ You shall not show partiality to a ^(C)poor man in his dispute.

⁶ But ^(A)you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you ^(B)and drag you into the courts? ⁷ Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are ^(C)called?

⁸ If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ^(D)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; ⁹ but if you ^[a]show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as ^(E)transgressors.