Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the gate.

If you refrain from delivering those being led away to death, those about to die;

if you say, Behold, we did not know it; does not He who ponders the heart consider it? And the Keeper of your soul, does He not know it? And shall He not repay to a man according to his deeds?

Thus Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you.

So Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swore, As Jehovah lives, he shall not be killed.

And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be killed? What has he done?

And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, who goes at your bidding, and is honorable in all your house?

Have I this day begun to inquire of God for him? Let it not be! Let not the king impute anything to his servant, or to any in the house of my father; for your servant has known nothing of all this, little or much.

And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: Do not think in your soul that you will escape in the king's house any more than all the other Jews.

Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai:

the rulers refrained from talking, and put their hand on their mouth;

I broke the fangs of the perverse, and flung out the prey from his teeth.

Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them out of the hand of the wicked.

Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.

Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like the high places of a forest.

And when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the officials in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the pit (the king was then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have thrown into the pit. And he is likely to die of hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread in the city.

Does our Law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he does?

Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power preserve alive the children of death;