saying, *There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.
The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.
The highways are desolate. The travelling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn't regard man.
A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'
He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?