Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"
"Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"
O you who turn justice to wormwood[1] and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?
"You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
"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.
Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "How did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?"
Those who stood by said, "Would you revile God's high priest?"