saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.
Parallel translations
- KJV Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:
- BSB “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.
- ESV He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.
- NKJV saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man.
- NASB saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect any person.
- NLT “There was a judge in a certain city,” he said, “who neither feared God nor cared about people.
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- Prov 29:7The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
- Luke 18:4He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
- Ps 8:1–4For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!
- Mic 3:1–3I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
- Jer 22:16–17He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
- Ezek 22:6–8“‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
- Exod 18:21–22Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
- Rom 3:14–18“whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
- Job 29:7–17when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
- 2 Chr 19:3–9Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”
- Isa 33:8The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.
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