Proverbs 31:9

9  Open your mouth, tjudge righteously,

udefend the rights of the poor and needy.

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Leviticus 19:15
“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Deuteronomy 1:16
And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.

Deuteronomy 16:18
“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.


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ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]