Deu 16:18, Job 29:7-17, 30:1, Isa 3:2-3, Lam 1:4, 19, 2:10 | ESV | STEP | You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes , and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment .

Deuteronomy 16:18

Justice

18 “You shall appoint ^ajudges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Job 29:7-17

7 When I went out to ^bthe gate of the city,
when I prepared my seat in the square,
8 the young men saw me and withdrew,
and the aged rose and stood;
9 the princes refrained from talking
and ^claid their hand on their mouth;
10 the voice of the nobles was hushed,
and their ^dtongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11 When the ear heard, it called me blessed,
and when the eye saw, it approved,
12 because I ^edelivered the poor who cried for help,
and the fatherless who had none to help him.
13 ^fThe blessing of him who was ^gabout to perish came upon me,
and I caused ^hthe widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14 I ⁱput on righteousness, and it clothed me;
my justice was like a robe and ^ja turban.
15 I was ^keyes to the blind
and feet to the lame.
16 I was a father to the needy,
and I searched out ^lthe cause of him whom I did not know.
17 I ^mbroke ⁿthe fangs of the unrighteous
and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

Job 30:1

1 “But now they ^olaugh at me,
men who are ^pyounger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
to set with the dogs of my flock.

Isaiah 3:2-3

2 ^qthe mighty man and the soldier,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty
and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
and the expert in charms.

Lamentations 1:4

4 The roads to Zion mourn,
for none come to ^rthe festival;
^sall her gates are desolate;
her priests ^tgroan;
her virgins have been afflicted, ^{▼▼Septuagint, Old Latin dragged away}
and she herself suffers bitterly.

Lamentations 1:19

19 “I called to ^vmy lovers,
but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
perished in the city,
while ^wthey sought food
to revive their strength.

Lamentations 2:10

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion
^xsit on the ground ^yin silence;
^zthey have thrown dust on their heads
and ^aaput on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.