So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of those that were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regards it; and there is one higher than they.
All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: there is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.
So that they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he speaks his mischievous desire: so they weave it together.
Then said Paul to him, God shall strike you, you whitened wall: for you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?