5
To
ashow partiality to the wicked is not good,
Nor to bthrust aside the righteous in judgment.
b
Exodus 23:2, Exodus 23:6, Proverbs 17:26, Proverbs 31:5, Micah 3:9
Exodus 23
2
"You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to apervert justice;
Exodus 23
6
"aYou shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.
Proverbs 17
26
It is also not good to afine the righteous, Nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
Proverbs 31
5
For they will drink and forget what is decreed, And apervert the rights of all the afflicted.
Micah 3
9
Now hear this, aheads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who babhor justice And twist everything that is straight,
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