16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren and judge righteously between [every] man and his brother and the stranger [that is] with him.

17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, [but] 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 cause that is too hard for you, bring [it] unto me, and I will hear it.