17  or have eaten my morsel alone,

and the fatherless has not eaten of it

18  (for from my youth the fatherless¹ grew up with me as with a father,

and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow²),

17  learn to do good;

^lseek justice,

correct oppression;

^mbring justice to the fatherless,

plead the widow’s cause.

23  Your princes are rebels

and companions of thieves.

Everyone ^uloves a bribe

and runs after gifts.

^vThey do not bring justice to the fatherless,

and the widow’s cause does not come to them.