³ Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: and sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

⁵¹ Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?

¹ If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and `the judges' judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

² and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

²⁷ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

²⁸ Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

²⁴ Annas therefore sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.

⁸ But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

⁹ Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

¹⁰ They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

¹¹ The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

⁷ Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

¹⁶ And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?

¹ God standeth in the congregation of God; He judgeth among the gods.

² How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? Selah

¹ Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

² Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

³⁵ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

¹⁵ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.