16 And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear {the causes} between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and him also that sojourneth with him.17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment: ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the matter that is too hard for you shall ye bring to me, that I may hear it.