• Ecclesiastes 3:16
  Moreover I saw under the sun:
  In the place of judgment,
  Wickedness was there;
  And in the place of righteousness,
  Iniquity was there.
   
• Ecclesiastes 4:1
  Then I returned and considered all the oppression that is done under the sun:
  And look! The tears of the oppressed,
  But they have no comforter—
  On the side of their oppressors there is power,
  But they have no comforter.
  
   
• Amos 5:10-13
  They hate the one who rebukes in the gate,
  And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.
  Therefore, because you tread down the poor
  And take grain taxes from him,
  Though you have built houses of hewn stone,
  Yet you shall not dwell in them;
  You have planted pleasant vineyards,
  But you shall not drink wine from them.
  For I know your manifold transgressions
  And your mighty sins:
  Afflicting the just and taking bribes;
  Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.
  Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time,
  For it is an evil time.
  
   
• Isaiah 59:3-8
  For your hands are defiled with blood,
  And your fingers with iniquity;
  Your lips have spoken lies,
  Your tongue has muttered perversity.
  No one calls for justice,
  Nor does any plead for truth.
  They trust in empty words and speak lies;
  They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
  They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web;
  He who eats of their eggs dies,
  And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.
  Their webs will not become garments,
  Nor will they cover themselves with their works;
  Their works are works of iniquity,
  And the act of violence is in their hands.
  Their feet run to evil,
  And they make haste to shed innocent blood;
  Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
  Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
  The way of peace they have not known,
  And there is no justice in their ways;
  They have made themselves crooked paths;
  Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.
   
• Amos 5:7
  You who turn justice to wormwood,
  And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!"
  
   

Related Scriptures

• Exodus 18:19-22
  Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you: Stand before God for the people, so that you may bring the difficulties to God. And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do. Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for you, for they will bear the burden with you.
   
• Isaiah 1:15-17
  When you spread out your hands,
  I will hide My eyes from you;
  Even though you make many prayers,
  I will not hear.
  Your hands are full of blood.
  "Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
  Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
  Cease to do evil,
  Learn to do good;
  Seek justice,
  Rebuke the oppressor;
  Defend the fatherless,
  Plead for the widow.
  
   
• Amos 5:15
  Hate evil, love good;
  Establish justice in the gate.
  It may be that the LORD God of hosts
  Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.