⁵ To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, Nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

²¹ To show partiality is not good; Yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

²³ These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

¹⁵ "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

¹⁵ He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

² "How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.

¹⁹ You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

¹⁶ They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren't partial to anyone.

³ Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; And the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

¹⁴ Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.

²³ Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, But deny justice for the innocent!

¹⁹ Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.

⁷ Will you speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?

⁸ Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

⁹ She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:

¹⁰ and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king. Then carry him out, and stone him to death.

¹¹ The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.

¹² They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

¹³ The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.

¹⁴ Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.

¹⁶ I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

¹⁷ You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.