Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? / Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.